A CROOK who robbed a restaurant at knifepoint has been locked up.
Darren Connolly, 36, of Rumsey Fields, Danbury, was sentenced to 32 months in prison for robbery and a further six months, to run concurrently, for possessing a knife in a public place.
Officers responded to reports of a robbery at a restaurant in Chelmsford shortly before midnight on May 9, after a man entered a restaurant on High Street, threatened a member of staff with a knife and demanded cash from the till.
The staff member managed to get away and the man took the till which contained a three-figure sum of cash.
Officers found a man at a taxi rank on Springfield Road matching the description provided by the victim and arrested him on suspicion of robbery.
Connolly admitted both charges at Chelmsford Crown Court on June 13.
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