Thug who held up pizza delivery boy at gunpoint for £17.30 worth of food is jailed for four years

A robber's plan to get away with holding up a pizza delivery man at gunpoint, has ended in a four and a half year jail sentence, after the takeaway kept a record of his mobile phone number. 


After ordering a meal from Shah's takeaway on Higher Bridge Street at 1.30am on June 20, Wesley Chapman waited outside a house in Clayton Street, Darcy Lever, with an imitation pistol.

David Clarke, prosecuting, told the court that when delivery man Tawassal Hussain arrived with the food, 24-year-old Chapman said he had no money and would pay the next day, then pulled out the weapon and pointed it at him, ordering him to hand over the food, get in his car and drive away.

'I would have given him anything he asked for, I was that scared,' Mr Hussain said.    Read Full