'Give me all the money or I will shoot you': Terrifying moment gunman raided NatWest
manchestereveningnews.co.ukChilling CCTV footage captured the moment a dangerous thug threatened to shoot a cashier in a terrifying bank robbery just days before he held a knife to a woman's throat.
Anthony Horrocks, who has an 'extensive history of violent offending with guns', targeted the NatWest bank on Melbourne Street in Stalybridge for the second time in a decade.
On September 20 last year, he burst in holding an orange carrier bag with an unknown item inside, police said.
He approached the counter, put the bag against the glass barrier and said: "Give me all the money in the till or I will shoot you."
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The terrified cashier handed over £2,720.
The chilling incident was captured on CCTV inside the bank.
Horrocks, 47, was then found three days later at a house in Ashton-under-Lyne, GMP said.
Officers found him holding a knife to the throat of a woman and threatening to stab her.
He was tasered and arrested and found with heroin and cannabis.
On January 28, Horrocks, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court for robbery, possession of an offensive weapon, affray, and possession of class A and class B drugs.
He was jailed for six years.
The court was told how in 2012, Horrocks was convicted of four business robberies and possession of an imitation firearm, which he took into banks in a carrier bag and demanded money.
One of the banks was the same NatWest branch on Melbourne Street.
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