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Girl, 4, 'offered pocket money to armed robbers'
A four-year-old girl offered armed robbers her pocket money to stop them threatening her mother, the Old Bailey has heard.Monie Omole tried to help when the robbers mistook her mother Keni for a member of staff at a travel agent they were holding up.
As they demanded safe keys at gunpoint, Monie took out a £10 note from her pocket and offered it to the five-man gang.
Oliver Glasgow, prosecuting, said of Monie's mother: "The gang demanded she hand over the keys and threatened her if she didn't. Her four-year-old daughter bravely offered the men her money.
"She put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a £10 note which was snatched from her grasp."
Mr Glasgow said the robbers went on to take money totalling more than £7,400 from customers and the safe.
They also stole jewellery and mobile phones from unsuspecting customers they ushered into the shop in Camberwell New Road, Kennington, south London, in December last year.
Dane Grant, 26, David Noel, 18, and Leon Dixon, 24, all from south London, deny four robbery and two firearms charges. The trial was adjourned until tomorrow.
Story filed: 17:16 Tuesday 9th September 2003