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   From: shooting.is.easier@bbc.com.uk   
      
   On 03 Oct 2021, Watchlist  posted some   
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   A robber in England was sentenced to three years in jail this week for   
   attempted robbery, but it was only thanks to the quick thinking of his   
   victim that he ended up in police custody in the first place.   
      
   “It wasn’t the most difficult arrest we have ever made. To be honest, it   
   was an open and shut case,” Detective Sergeant Paul Mawson of Durham   
   Constabulary told The Northern Echo.   
      
   Martin Trimble, 30, walked into a convenience store last month in Durham   
   City with a knife.   
      
   He picked up a four-pack of beer and used his knife to threaten the store   
   owner.   
      
   Rather than let Trimble walk away, the store owner ran outside and closed   
   the door, holding it tight and trapping his thief inside.   
      
   The shop owner, who remained unnamed, then lowered the storefront shutter   
   in an effort to make sure Trimble couldn’t escape.   
      
      
   Trimble tried to avoid capture again by breaking the door free of the shop   
   owner’s grip and trying to slip out before the shutter had fully   
   descended.   
      
   But the shutter was too low and Trimble found himself pinned to the ground   
   – his torso outside and open to the streets.   
      
   Thief enters store.   
   Martin Trimble, 30, walked into a convenience store last month with a   
   knife.   
   Twitter/@DurhamPolice   
   Thief at counter.   
   Trimble was sentenced to three years in jail.   
   Twitter/@DurhamPolice   
   Thief at counter.   
   Trimble picked up a four-pack of beer and used his knife to threaten the   
   store owner.   
   Twitter/@DurhamPolice   
   Thief in door.   
   Trimble got lodged under the door shutter and cracked open one of the   
   beers.   
   Twitter/@DurhamPolice   
      
   Realizing he was beaten, Trimble cracked open one of the beers he tried to   
   steal and drank it while he waited for the police to take him away.   
      
   Officers arrived within three minutes of receiving the call and arrested   
   Trimble.   
      
   He pled guilty to charge of attempted robbery and possession of a knife   
   and sentenced on June 16 to prison.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/storeowner-traps-knife-wielding-thief-   
   inside-door-shutters/   
      
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