A man involved in a cash raid in Liverpool’s Chinatown today admitted a robbery outside a Wirral supermarket.
Leslie Aitchison, 38, last week admitted the offences of robbery and possession of an imitation firearm in relation to an incident in Nelson Street on July 20.
Police said two security guards were refilling a stand-alone cashpoint when two masked men threatened them with a handgun and stole a box containing cash.
The robbers were said to have made off in a grey Vauxhall Insignia up Duke Street, towards Upper Parliament Street.
Aitchison, of no fixed address but believed to be from the Kensington area, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court this morning via video link from HMP Liverpool.
He pleaded guilty to another charge of robbery, relating to an incident at a Tesco store in Eastham on May 9 this year.
The defendant, with short black hair and wearing a grey sweatshirt, spoke only to confirm his personal details and enter his guilty plea.
John Rowan, defending, said: “This is a matter where an immediate custodial sentence is inevitable.”
Two other men, Spencer Benjamin, 43, and Ian Porter, 46, deny the three charges.
Benjamin, of Solway Street West, Toxteth, and Porter, of Longborough Road, Prescot, will stand trial on January 18 next year.
The trial is expected to last five days.
Judge Anil Murray said Aitchison will be sentenced at the conclusion of the trial.
The judge has remanded all three men in custody.
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Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/