Wednesday court round-up — Fife robberies and a Dundee dash
by Crime and Courts Team
April 14 2021, 7.30pm
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A Fife shopkeeper told how he grabbed an imitation firearm as his shop was being robbed, fearing it was the real thing.
Gun terror
Kieran Pearson pointed the “weapon” at Zaheer Babar but the brave business-owner grabbed it from him and marched the bungling thief from his shop.
Pearson, 28, from Dunfermline, pled guilty at the High Court in Dunfermline to the attempted robbery – as well as another at a petrol station in Dunfermline, with accomplice,