Brett Mullan: Man who robbed bookies using walking stick as fake shotgun jailed for 10 years

Police say Mullan"terrified members of the public and staff", with a total of £2,780 stolen over the course of the robberies.A man who has carried out a series of robberies at bookmakers across London pretending his walking stick was a shotgun has been jailed for 10 years.

Brett Mullan, 50, of Gravesend, concealed a collapsible walking stick in a plastic bag, which was used to resemble a shotgun and scare the public and staff at the bookmakers.Mullan wasto a railway ticket inspector when stopped on a train on his way to the second robbery in Burnt Ash Road on 13 April.

He was identified using CCTV footage as officers found that the suspect was travelling to and from the offences by rail.From there, police gathered footage of each offence, and of Mullan leaving from and returning to his home address. The Flying Squad investigated a linked series of armed robberies at bookmakers in Lee, Norwood, Sutton and Crayford between Monday 4 April and Sunday 24 April.

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