A WOMAN threatened a shopkeeper with a knife after having her card decline to buy booze ... before he fought her off with a chair.
Justine Roberts has been jailed after she threw a knife at the shopkeeper during the botched robbery at Benfleet Wines, in Kiln Road, Thundersley.
During the attack, the shopkeeper was cornered behind a perspex screen in place as part of Covid restrictions, before fighting her off with a chair.
Roberts, 46, of Abbotswood, Hadleigh, tried to buy the cider at 8.45pm on February 3, but her card was declined twice.
Half an hour later she returned to the store, wearing a hat and face mask, and threatened the shopkeeper with a large kitchen knife, demanding he take cash from the till.