Armed robber jailed for threatening shop staff

Wednesday, 10 September 2025 16:04

By Gareth Joy X @lookoutwales2

South Wales Police

An armed man from Barry who threatened shop staff with a knife has been jailed.

Gerard Clogg also racially abused a Sainsbury's worker while trying to leave their Park Crescent store last January without paying.

The 54 year-old fled the shop but he was quickly found in Claude Road, while carrying a sock filled with broken glass, which he threw at police.

Officers also found a bag of meat, cheese and wine worth around £27 close to where he was arrested.

Clogg went onto plead guilty to robbery, possessing a knife and an offensive weapon, and a racially aggravated public order offence.

At Newport Crown Court, he was sentenced to five years and three months in prison, including a 15-month suspended sentence which he had received for racially aggravated harrassment.

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