Bookies worker tipped off robbery boyfriend
WOMAN FOUND GUILTY OF PLAYING ‘INTEGRAL PART’ IN ATTACK ON COLLEAGUE
A BETTING shop worker has been convicted of tipping off her boyfriend with ‘inside intelligence’ to help him rob nearly £5,000 from one of her colleagues.
A jury at Manchester Crown Court found Michelle Mullany guilty of one count of robbery following a trial.
She will be sentenced before the same court next month.
The trial heard that Mullany, 35, worked at Coral bookmakers in Bolton Road, Walkden, Salford.
Prosecutors said she played an ‘integral part’ in the raid, which saw one of her colleagues being wrestled to the ground and robbed.
She was accused of tipping off Daniel Cowgill, 26, who Mullany was in a ‘casual relationship’ with, and Trevor Hinds, 22, and giving them information about where her colleague would be with the money.
The female colleague was pinned to the ground near a bus stop opposite the bookmakers by the men, and had the £4,820 of takings stored in a bum bag under her clothing taken from her.
The court heard that the money was being taken to a post office to be banked.
Nicola Carroll, prosecuting, said that Mullany supplied Cowgill, of Brydon Close, Salford, with information about how the money from the bookies was banked, when the woman would be leaving the shop and where she would be going.
Mullany had originally supposed to be the member of staff taking the cash, but after having a cigarette outside the shop, at about 2pm, she said to her innocent colleague:“I can’t be a **** going, can you take it?” Cowgill and Hinds, of Florence Street, Eccles, were sitting at a nearby bus stop. Ms Carroll said that at 2.12pm Mullany sent a text to Cowgill within a few minutes of the robbery taking place. She said this showed that the pair had colluded and planned the robbery. Mullany, of Emlyn Street, Walkden, denied having any involvement in the robbery. Cowgill and Hinds previously pleaded guilty to robbery. Mullany is due to be sentenced on July 3.
I can’t be a **** going, can you take it? What Michelle Mullany said to colleague who was robbed as she took money from the bookies where they worked to the post office