Give me the money! Please.

A “polite” robber had pointed a hypodermic needle at Kirkcaldy shop staff. The polite Big Issue seller had apologised to shop staff as he robbed them, telling them: “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you.”

The comment was made after he showed two women a menacing hypodermic needle in a Fife Co-op store.

Then, in a raid on an Edinburgh sweet shop two weeks later, Spence produced a 6-inch knife and said: “I am sorry but I am going to have to take all the money from your till.”

A judge heard this week that at the time of the robberies Spence, of no fixed address, was still on licence after being released early from a previous prison sentence.

He is now in custody pending sentence next month.

http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/local-headlines/polite-robber-pointed-needle-at-kirkcaldy-shop-staff-1-3251877