Man gets 18 months for robbing shop with meat cleaver

He was caught after a Garda who happened to be passing became suspicious after seeing him wearing a padded jacket and scarf on a warm day

John Aylmer placed the crime at the upper end of the lower range of such robberies. Picture: iStock

A man who held a meat cleaver to a shop assistant's throat during a terrifying robbery has been jailed for one-and-a-half years.

Darren Quigley burst into a shop in Co. Donegal, threatened one staff member with the weapon and then ordered another assistant to fill the bag with cash.