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A British teenager, who threatened a shopkeeper and her seven-year-old daughter with a shotgun during an armed robbery attack, has walked free from court.
The Middlesbrough-born teenager, Jack Phillips (18), burst into the family-owned shop in Strafford (London, the United Kingdom) and pointed a 2ft-long loaded gun at the shopkeeper, Ranvir Bassi (35), and her seven-year-old daughter.
Mrs Bassi, awarded £500 for her bravery, is seen in the CCTV footage shoving the weapon away before bravely chasing the teenager out of the shop, screaming ‘get out of my shop’.
Phillips has, however, been spared jail because recorder, Michael Elsom, believes he committed the crime ‘under pressure’, adding that he was ‘young and impressionable’.
