Caught on camera: Wolverhampton garage worker fends off knife raider
These dramatic CCTV images show the moment a brave shop assistant fought off a knife-wielding raider during a robbery at a Wolverhampton petrol station.
Shafqat Hussain was working alone in the Murco petrol station in Warstones Road, when two armed men burst through the doors and demanded cash.
One image shows Mr Hussain, who was 24 at the time of the raid on October 22, 2012, fending off one of the raiders who was armed with a knife. He was slashed across the hand and also received injuries to his neck as a result of the attack. The CCTV footage shows the other robber, who was brandishing a machete, stealing £485 from the till while the scuffle took place.
The heavily-disguised robbers - neither of whom have ever been traced - can be seen entering the station's shop separately at 10.23pm.
Eight minutes earlier James Jameson, aged 28, of Buckley Road, Warstones is shown on the station forecourt about to enter the store to scope the place out. Last week at Wolverhampton Crown Court he was found guilty of robbery after a trial and jailed for six years and three months.
The raiders made their getaway in a white Citroen Saxo which had been parked in a neighbouring road. It was driven by Marlon Watson, also 28, of no fixed address, who admitted the same charge and was locked up for 39 months. The car had been jointly bought by Watson and Jameson three days before the raid.
During the hearing Mr Hussain, who no longer works at the petrol station, was praised for his brave actions during the terrifying incident.
His manager at the time, Shahid Kiani, 39, said Mr Hussain served a customer in the moments after the robbery before telephoning him to report the raid.
He added: "He gave resistance, which most people would not have done. He was very brave on that night."
The station has been regularly targeted by robbers in the last two years, and was hit twice in the space of three weeks during last October and November.
