‘I’ll blow up the garage’

A robber threatened to set a petrol station on fire to steal a pack of cigarettes, a court heard. Hong Truong allegedly held a lighter against a petrol pump at a Shell branch in Marylebone, central London, on 22 November this year. The 33-year-old threatened to set the petrol station on fire unsuccessfully to get staff member Afsal Mohamed to hand him over some cigarettes, Southwark Crown Court heard. Truong did not enter pleas to charges of attempted robbery and…