Teenage gunman Anthony Stott jailed for terrifying robbery at Kirkheaton

Mar 12 2010 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Teenage gunman jailed for terrifying robbery at Kirkheaton

A TEENAGER who carried out a robbery in Kirkheaton using a BB gun has been locked up for four-and-a-half years.

Anthony Stott, 18, disguised his face with a bandana and produced a realistic-looking black Ball Bearing handgun when he demanded money from a 17-year-old youth who was sat in a car with a friend eating a takeaway.

Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday that Stott, who was with two other youths, pushed the handgun into the victim's face during the incident at the car park of a doctor's surgery on Heaton Moor Road, last December.

Although the prosecution alleged during a trial that the victim was actually shot in the face with a pellet from the weapon, Judge Alistair McCallum said he could not be sure that a pellet had been discharged.

Booth's barrister Alistair Campbell submitted that the injury caused to the victim's nose may have been caused either by him being pistol-whipped or as a result of compressed air being discharged by the gun at close range.

The 17-year-old was treated in hospital for the injury to his nose and the court heard that he had been left with a scar.