DRAMATIC CCTV footage shows the ‘frightening’ moment a drug-addict raided a Southcote betting shop with a fake gun earlier this year. 

Kerron Annetts, 41, from Aldermaston, was handed a four-and-a-half year sentence for his role in the terrifying robbery of the Coronation Square Betfred on May 31. 

The 41-year-old left with £200 in cash but his actions that day left a lasting mark on the Betfred employee who stared down the barrel of Annetts’ gun.

 

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A CCTV video provided by the Crown Prosecution Service shows Annetts pointing a gun at the terrified cashier after rushing into the store with a bag. 

Reading Chronicle: Kerron Annetts. Image via TVPKerron Annetts. Image via TVP

He then kicks down the wooden door leading to the employee area behind the tills. 

After a brief scuffle with the employee, Annetts ransacks the tills before exiting the store. 

At Annetts’ sentencing, prosecutor Oliver Weetch read a victim statement from the employee. 

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He said: “She had a sense of relief when she returned home and she realised she had got through what had happened. 

“She didn’t sleep at night because the events had been replaying in her mind since the incident occurred. 

“It still plays on her head on a loop. 

“When she thinks about it she appreciates he could have shot her at any point. 

“She tries not to think about it but can’t get her head around the ‘what if’ scenario and the impact on her husband and her son. 

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“It just doesn’t bear thinking about.”

Annetts' accomplice, Simon Bampton, 47 from Reading, was waiting in a getaway car outside the store while Annetts was in the shop. 

Recorder Mr Smith said that despite their different roles in the incident, both were “committed” to robbing the shop in order to ‘feed their drug addictions.’

Bampton was sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of robbery following a trial. 

The pair were sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Monday, December 6.