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Armed robber who held up bookies at gunpoint stole to pay for private operation AN ARMED robber committed a spree of gunpoint raids on bookmakers’ shops and a McColl s to raise cash for an operation, a court heard. Dean Hanman, 39, had been waiting for the operation – understood to be on his lower leg – since 2017 but the procedure kept being delayed. The former foreman, who has 140 offences on his record, turned to prescription and street drugs to manage the pain before hatching a doomed plan last year to fund the operation privately through armed raids. Jailing the Penhill man for 10 years and 10 months at Swindon Crown Court this morning, Judge Jason Taylor QC said: “You were in chronic pain and wanted money to pay for an operation that unfortunately had been delayed. Of course, that did not justify you doing what you did.”
From top left: Betfred, Moredon Road; McColls, Penhill Drive; Ladbrokes, Thames Avenue; Betfred, Bridge Street Pictures: GOOGLE AN ARMED robber who held up three bookies and a tried to rob a corner shop has been warned to expect a lengthy prison sentence. Dean Hanman, 39, used an imitation pistol to steal almost £2,900 from the three bookmakers’ shops over a month this winter. Appearing before Swindon Crown Court via video link from Bullingdon prison on Friday morning, Hanman, of Imber Walk, Penhill, pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery, one attempted robbery and four charges of possession of an imitation firearm with intent to commit a specified offence.