March 7, 2013 2.06 pm This story is over 131 months old

Lincoln man jailed for knife-point robbery

Jail for robbery: A local man has been jailed for three years for robbing a Lincoln Spar shop at knife-point.

A Lincoln man has been jailed for three years for robbing a city shop.

Dominic Alan Norris (32), of no fixed abode, was jailed at Lincoln Crown Court on Wednesday.

The court heard he had gone into the Spar shop in Clasketgate in Lincoln on February 25 and tried to leave with a bottle of wine.

When staff stopped him he threatened them with a knife and left the scene.

Norris was arrested by Lincolnshire Police officers and later charged with robbery, possession of a knife in a public place and theft from a shop.