![]() ![]() He was also carrying a white bag over his shoulder. “The suspect is described as wearing dark trousers, a navy raincoat with its hood up, a baseball cap with white stripes, white socks and black trainers. We believe he made off on foot towards the Hopewell Avenue area. “He was then approached by other staff members and made off without getting anything. ![]() PSNI Inspector Adams said: “The suspect, who was armed with a screwdriver, approached a member of staff behind the till area and demanded money. Read more: Man arrested for carrying a firearm following armed robbery in Carryduff Police say the suspect made off on foot towards Hopewell Avenue. The 'armed robbery' happened on Thursday morning, October 6, at around 6.15am in the Antrim Road area.Ī staff member was unharmed but left shaken. On Friday, JStapleton was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years before he was eligible for parole.A man has entered a shop 'armed with a screwdriver' in a 'terrifying' incident in North Belfast. Sharp was badly scalded in the assault, the court heard. "Guys see me differently now, I kept myself to myself but now they respect me and guards are more concerned, they say I am unpredictable." "I'm in here for murder, not shoplifting," he told doctors. Stapleton admitted he had not been bullied himself but claimed he was 'doing it for others, putting his own hand in'. " was the one that stands out from the rest of them, loud, abusive, threatening, bullying to people. Speaking to a prison doctor after the attack an unremorseful Stapleton, then 21, said he had intended to kill Sharp, who he described as a 'bully' who ruled Strangeways with a rod of fear. Stapleton then carried on the assault using billiard balls in a sock alongside two friends from Salford armed with pool cues. Known in prison as a 'jugging', the sugar melts in the water so it sticks to his victim's skin. #ONE MAN ONE SCREW DRIVER FULL#While on remand for the Boxing Day murder of Anuj Bidve, Kiaran Stapleton poured a mop bucket full of hot water sugar with sugar over Sharp's head as he played chess on the Category A prison wing. The following year Sharp's reputation would come back to haunt him. I would stand my ground, win, lose or draw." If you’ve got trouble with me then I am going to stand my ground. "They got me once there - 16 of them to do that little cut there, that's it. They were all backing off, they weren’t coming too close. ![]() None of them had heart enough to come in and do the job. I was in a corner so they couldn’t really get me. They all hard sharp pieces of plastic, glass. Some of them had prison issue T-shirts on their heads with holes cut out. "They attacked me all wearing prison issue clothing. #ONE MAN ONE SCREW DRIVER PRO#Sykes training with a punchbag back in 1972 during his short stint as a pro boxer (Image: Getty Images) A lot of people never liked him, even feared him but I respected the man and what he stood for." The pair met behind bars and Bronson wrote in his books, Legends: "A notorious hard man from Yorkshire, a fighting man in every sense. ![]() One former Governor of Hull Prison called him a 'short tempered' lag who assaulted staff 'on a number of occasions' and Sykes also left an impression on Charles Bronson. He came to prominence in the cult documentary, Paul Sykes: At Large, before succumbing to alcoholism and a pitiful death aged 60. Once dubbed the the UK's 'hardest lag', Sykes spent much of his adult life behind bars. He'd grown up in the shadow of a notorious dad - ex-heavyweight boxer and alcoholic Paul Sykes. Read more: Dale Cregan took my beloved daughter's life - she stopped me taking my own from beyond the graveīut violence ran in the family. Sharp was just 25-years-old when he was jailed for life for murdering ex-policeman David Ward in a brutal robbery at his West Yorkshire home. "There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, so there's a lot of stabbings, a lot of slashings, people boiling up tubs of butter, turning it into oil, throwing that over the faces, over the body, they don't care what they do," he said. Interviewed for the Strangeways ITV documentary, killer bodybuilder Michael Sharp painted a bleak picture of life inside Manchester's notorious prison. ![]()
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