Man sentenced to four years for threatening someone with a knife and robbery

A Worcester man has been sentenced to a total of four years in prison for threatening someone with a knife and robbery.

The threats were made to a man in his 20s after Bryn Terrance Jones had stolen alcohol from the Co-op store on Canada Way, Lower Wick, Worcester, on 31 July 2016.

Jones, of Rounds Road, Worcester pleaded not guilty to the offence but was found guilty by a jury at Hereford Crown Court on Wednesday 18 January.

He pleaded guilty to the theft at the Co-op and another theft of alcohol from the same store on the evening of 30 July 2016. He also pleaded guilty to robbing cash from an 18-year-old man in Worcester on the evening of 31 May 2016.

Jones was sentenced to a total of four years in prison; two years for threatening someone with a bladed article and two years for robbery. He was also sentenced to six months to run concurrently for the two theft offences.

At a hearing in August last year, Jones also pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and cannabis. The court ordered that the drugs be forfeited and destroyed.

Detective Constable Phillip Wood said: