Man admits Lllandudno William Hill bookies robberyA young man has admitted armed robbery of a member of staff at a Llandudno bookmaker’s office.
Defendant Jaher Ahmed Miah, 21, appeared from custody at Mold Crown Court today for a preliminary hearing.
But Miah, of Carmen Sylva Road in Llandudno, asked that the charges be put to him and he admitted them all.
He pleaded guilty to robbery at The William Hill Bookmaker’s office in Glodaeth Street, Llandudno, on August 10, possessing an imitation firearm while carrying out the robbery, and possessing a quantity of cannabis, a class B drug.
A second man, Andrew John Owens, 21, of Maes Clyd, Llandudno, admitted a charge that between August 8 and August he conspired with Miah to commit the robbery.
Judge Rhys Rowlands was told that it was the prosecution case that while Owens was not with Miah at the time the robbery occurred, they had been discussing the robbery beforehand.
The court was told that Owens had no previous convictions and that Miah had one previous conviction for burglary.
No details of the robbery were opened in court today and the judge remanded both in custody, to appear for sentence on September 17.
The judge told them that custody was inevitable, and that it was simply a question of how long the prison sentence should be.
But he adjourned for pre-sentence reports and he said that the guilty pleas at a preliminary stage were very important and that they would both receive a full one-third credit when it came to sentence.
The judge also asked that a victim impact statement be taken from the victim by the time of the sentencing hearing.
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