A teenager who committed a knife-point aggravated burglary at a convenience store in Crawley has been jailed for five years.
It happened at Casbah in Horsham Road just before 11.25pm on December 16th.
As staff prepared to close the store, two masked men with knives entered the shop, walked around the counter and started helping themselves to bottles of alcohol and cats from the till.
A worker received a small cut to the head as he tried to stop them.
A few days later, 18-year-old Thomas Penny, of Brighton Road, Redhill, Surrey, was arrested for an unrelated matter in Dorking, Surrey.
Police investigating were able to link him to the Crawley incident - they also found he'd carried out an internet search with the words ‘Crawley knife point robbery’.
He was subsequently charged with aggravated burglary. He pleaded guilty to the offence, and at Lewes Crown Court on 10 June, he was sentenced to five years in a young offender institution.
The second suspect was not traced and remains at large.
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