Clayton-le-Moors getaway driver jailed for five years (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Clayton-le-Moors getaway driver jailed for five years
11:12am Thursday 12th January 2012 in Clayton-le-Moors
BALACLAVA Jason McCash was part of the robbery bid gang
THE getaway driver in an armed raid attempt has been jailed for five years.
Jason McCash, 27, admitted driving two cars in the attempted robbery of the Londis News Extra shop, in Barnes Road, Clayton-le-Moors.
McCash, of Springhill Road, Accrington, wore a balaclava and waited outside the shop in a blue Volkswagen Passat, while two accomplices went in with a two-foot axe.
Prosecuting, Mark Lambert said shopkeeper Nasir Ahmed behaved with “conspicous courage” when he went behind the counter to retrieve a cricket bat and chased the men away.
Shortly after the incident, at 7pm on May 10 last year, residents in Barnes Road noticed a blue Volkswagen in a back alley off Bayley Street, Preston Crown Court heard.
They then heard a red renault Clio “screeching” into the same alley.
Mr Lambert said: “Witnesses heard one man urging another to ‘hurry up and get in’, then the car sped off.”
Police later recovered both cars and found a 27cms Samurai sword in the Renault.
On May 12, a young boy found a bag in an alley in Charles Street, near the shop, containing a grey jumper, two black woollen balaclavas, a set of VW car keys and a cigarette lighter.
Forensic tests showed the sword had a blood stain matching McCash’s DNA, and the clothing also showed evidence of his DNA. When arrested on July 29, McCash admitted he had driven both cars.
Judge Jonathan Gibson said: “It is evident from the CCTV you were wearing a disguise and at least one of the other men took a weapon into the shop.
"Mr Nasir showed extremely great courage and he took out a cricket bat and chased them away.
"There was potential for this to have been much worse but, even so, this must have been a frustrating and frightening event for the shopkeeper.”
McCash, who has previous convictions including burgalry, assault and arson, was sentenced to five years – half of which can be spent out on licence.
Comments(13)
Your ferret stinks
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1:10pm Thu 12 Jan 12
As for the name given as 'McCash' are we sure he's not having the last laugh?
thermio
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1:44pm Thu 12 Jan 12
Looks like a bag of marbles working a road digger.
disgusted tunbridge wells
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1:53pm Thu 12 Jan 12
kezza1982
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3:26pm Thu 12 Jan 12
Keep Darwen Green
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3:59pm Thu 12 Jan 12
kezza1982
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4:08pm Thu 12 Jan 12
Rich Riley
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6:04pm Thu 12 Jan 12
jay1969
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7:17pm Thu 12 Jan 12
Keep Darwen Green wrote:lol
Clarence was caught because he just kept driving in circles.
Chris P Bacon
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8:01pm Thu 12 Jan 12
nt wuck-fit get someone to give him a driving licence? He's got one eye going down the shops and the other coming back with the change and expects to be taken seriously! How he's had a brain-bypass on the NHS to enable him to have the cheek walking round with a grid like that can only make us shudder at the barrel his community scraped the bottom of to come up with that.
Black Car Guy.
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1:14pm Mon 16 Jan 12
thermio wrote:He sure does look like he is inbred. Would a slap correct his vision and looks?
Where did he get a balaclava to fit that head? Looks like a bag of marbles working a road digger.
mr beer belly
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1:18pm Mon 16 Jan 12
tommyfromblackburn
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11:17pm Mon 16 Jan 12
the_truth_is_out_there_! says...
11:19am Thu 12 Jan 12