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Pensioner denies robberies

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Pensioner denies robberies

Nov 21 2003

South London Press

AN ARMED pensioner and his middle-aged accomplice robbed a string of off licences across South London, escaping with laundry bags stuffed full of loot, a court heard this week.

Leroy Samuels, 67, from Brixton, and Alan Gardener, 51, from Sydenham, held terrified staff at gunpoint before handcuffing them and making off with cash, cigarettes and alcohol, it is claimed. It is alleged the duo pocketed more than £15,000 in seven raids from January 22, 2002, to February 5 this year.

Stephen Warner, prosecuting at the Old Bailey, said the crime spree had finally been halted after police launched a surveillance operation.

Samuels and Gardener carried out their first raid at an off licence in Clapham and two months later got away with £2,300 from Oddbins in Battersea Bridge Road, jurors were told.

Further robberies at Oddbins in Kennington Road, Lambeth, and at off licences in Clapham and Battersea followed, it is claimed.

Samuels, of Langbourne House, Effra Road, Brixton, and Gardener, of Polecraft Lane, Sydenham, deny conspiracy to rob, seven counts of robbery, attempted robbery, and eight counts of possession of a firearm with intent.

The trial continues.

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