Jail for ‘inside job’ shop raid

A SHOP manager was caught staging a bogus armed robbery by her own CCTV cameras.

Michelle Williams, 34, “cowered” as a masked raider fled One Stop with £3,000. But the robbery had been planned by her boyfriend, Ben Bailey, 38.

Police were suspicious of “bad acting” on CCTV in Usk, Monmouthshire, Cardiff crown court heard.

Williams, from Blaenau Gwent, was jailed for fourand-a-half years. Bailey, 38, got six. A lad, 17, was given 18 months’ detention.