Jail for bookies raider

A robber who pretended he was armed before threatening to blow a betting shop cashier’s head off has been jailed for 56 months. Kenneth Brown, 53, entered the bookies on New Cross Road, southeast London and calmly handed over a hand written note which read: ‘Give me the money – or I will blow your ******* head off’. During the raid the bandit held his right hand in his pocket while pointing it at staff – intimating that he had…