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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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Keiran Pearson s armed robbery plan backfired in Fife. (Image: Perthshire Picture Agency)
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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,