Hero shopkeeper uses his loaf to stop knife wielding thief with milk and bread

A bare thief tried to clasp up a country store demanding £100 to provender his household – but alternatively near with bread, food and milk.

The brazen transgression barged into Eversley Stores successful Malvern, Worcestershire, conscionable aft 4pm past Wednesday wielding a 12invch blade.

He was demanding £100 successful currency saying helium needed wealth to provender his children.

But erstwhile helium was told that determination was nary currency successful the till for him to rob – the leader shopkeeper – Rakesh Kumar, 47, alternatively handed him immoderate cupboard essentials.

Mr Kumar handed the crook a loaf of £3 Warburtons seeded bread, a £3.59 battalion of Lurpak food and 4 pints of beverage worthy £2.30.

Incredibly, the stunned thief grabbed the grub – which was worthy a full of £8.89 – and fled the scene.

Father-of-two, Mr Kumar said: ‘He came into the store and the weapon was hidden successful his trousers.

‘It was a commercialized room weapon and I deliberation it was astir 12 inches long.

‘He enactment the weapon down connected the table and asked maine for £100, to which I told him that we bash not support that successful the till.

‘He kept connected asking maine for wealth from the till and that it was to provender his

children, and I kept telling him that determination was nary wealth successful there.

‘I tried to calm him down and helium enactment the weapon back.

‘I told him to instrumentality immoderate bread, beverage and food if helium needs to, but helium has to committedness maine that helium volition not spell anyplace other afterwards.

‘I said helium needed nutrient not money, I said I would supply him the food. He kept asking astir the money.

‘I told him to instrumentality breadstuff and butter, I said ‘I don’t privation your children to spell hungry’.

‘Once helium left, I was not going to study him, but speaking to radical made maine realise I should study it due to the fact that helium was carrying a weapon.’

Mr Kumar reported the robbery to constabulary who aboriginal arrested a 22-year-old man.

Mr Kumar added: ‘This is not normal. I person been successful Malvern a agelong clip and this is not mean for the town.

‘We bash not person immoderate occupation with shoplifting here. Five oregon six kids tin travel into the store and I bash not person to support an oculus connected them.

‘The lone happening that is scaring maine is that this is present happening successful Malvern..’

A West Mercia Police spokesperson said: ‘We received a study astir 4:10pm of a antheral with a weapon entering Eversley Stores connected Worcester Road and demanding wealth from the till.

‘When it was established that nary wealth was connected the premises, the antheral near the store with market items.

‘Officers attended and located the antheral who was arrested connected suspicion of robbery.

‘The 22-year-old has been released connected bail.’

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