A 22-YEAR-OLD man who threatened shop assistants with a knife has received an indeterminate prison sentence ‘to protect the public’.
The sentence means Michael Morgan, from Wordsworth Crescent, Blacon will not be released until experts decide he is no longer a threat to the public.
Judge Elgan Edwards, sentencing him at Chester Crown Court, ruled that he cannot even apply for parole until he has served three and a half years. Morgan admitted charges of robbery and carrying an offensive weapon at McColls newsagents in Blacon Avenue on December 1, 2009.
Detective Constable Steve McCabe, from Cheshire Police Western Area Pro-Active CID, said: “Morgan brandished a large kitchen knife, made threats and demanded money. The shop assistants – one a woman – believed they would be stabbed. He subjected them to a terrifying ordeal.
“When he realised the assistants were not going to open the till he grabbed some packets of cigarettes from the display counter and left.
“This robbery was carried out while Morgan was on bail charged with robbing a taxi driver several months before and on the same night as the robbery at McColls he was also involved in a theft at another convenience store in Blacon. He is already serving prison terms for both those offences.
“This sentence removes a dangerous young man from the streets of Chester for a considerable time to come.”
