Hero Scots shopkeeper disarmed gunman and told him to sit down during attempted robbery
Zaheer Babar grabbed Keiran Pearson s gun and told him to put his hands up before instructing him to leave his Spar shop in Dunfermline.
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Hero shopkeeper Zaheer Babar (Image: Daily Record)
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A GUN-TOTING robber was jailed for five years and four months today (Wednesday) after he fled empty-handed when a shopkeeper disarmed him. Keiran Pearson, 28, pointed the weapon at Zaheer Babar and twice demanded that he sit down but his victim turned the tables on him. Mr Babar grabbed the gun and told Pearson to put his hands up and instructed him to leave the Spar shop, in Townhill Road, Dunfermline. Pearson expressed a concern that the shopkeeper would hit him and asked if he had left a bag inside the premises. Mr Babar went back into the shop to check and then returned to find that Pearson had fled, the High Court in Edinburgh heard.
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A would-be robber who was marched from a Fife convenience store at the point of his own “gun” has been warned further offending could see him stay in jail for the rest of his life.
Kieran Pearson was jailed for more than five years at the High Court in Edinburgh after admitting to carrying out the botched robbery in Dunfermline last year.
His bid to hold up staff at the Spar store in the town’s Townhill Road backfired when owner Zaheer Uddin Babar grabbed the weapon and turned it on him.
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