Boxer gets six years jail for robbery; RAID.Byline: STEPHEN WHITE THE son of ex-Manchester United soccer star Mickey Thomas There are several people named Mickey Thomas:
n. The sharp end of a knife. Idiom: at knifepoint Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint. raid on a garage. Boxer Aaron Thomas had denied robbing the filling station and Spar store near his home in North Wales of pounds 12,000 last May. The court heard he had lost pounds 5,300 in a casino hours before and CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television had captured a distinctive tattoo of his fiance's initials on his neck. Jailing the boxer at Caernarfon crown court, judge Hughes told him: "I'm quite satisfied that when you entered the shop you did so because you had only just lost a substantial amount of money by gambling it away on the roulette tables. You were in those circumstances desperate for money." Thomas, of Rhos on Sea, a 29-year-old welterweight, was in the Wales squad for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. CAPTION(S): JAILED Aaron Thomas, 29 |
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