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Adam Merkitt and Andrew Bluck stole
£4,000 after storming a store in Buckden, Cambs - five hours after they robbed a nearby shop of its till and lottery tickets
2019 footage shows pair of axe-wielding thugs holding up five members of staff
A witness alerted police that same day after spotting the pair travelling together
Merkitt, 36, and Bluck, 37, were jailed at Peterborough Crown Court this week
Watch as men threaten shop workers with axe during armed robbery
The pair travelled from Northampton to Buckden and then Eaton Socon to carry out their robbery
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Two men who threatened shop workers with an axe during an armed robbery have been jailed.
Published:
5:28 PM May 6, 2021
Adam Merkitt of Great Paxton has been jailed for his part in the violent robbery in which staff were threatened with an axe.
- Credit: CAMBS POLICE
Two men who threatened shop workers with an axe during an armed robbery have been jailed.
Adam Merkitt and Andrew Bluck travelled from Northampton to Hunts End, in Buckden, on November 9, 2019 and smashed their way into a store where they attempted to make off with lottery tickets and the till.
Just five hours later, at 6am, Merkitt apprehended the manager of a shop in Great North Road, Eaton Socon, while Bluck rounded up three others into a separate room demanding they ‘empty their pockets’.