article_snippet.sent: Shaun Andrew McKerry pleaded guilty at Durham Crown Court, via videolink from prison, to attempted robbery from the post office on March 15.
article_snippet.sent: In one of McKerry earlier crimes McKerrystole 22 charity boxes while dressed as a woman.
article_snippet.sent: When he was 16 McKerry was sentenced to four years in a young offenders' institution for robbing a village postmaster at knifepoint.
article_snippet.sent: In 2011 he was jailed for four years after he admitted robbery after stealing £90 from a takeaway delivery man in Coundon while armed with a six inch kitchen knife.
article_snippet.sent: Six months later McKerry, then 16, was sentenced to four years in a young offenders' institution for robbing a village postmaster at knifepoint.
article_snippet.sent: McKerry had been granted bail after admitting theft on a Monday but was picked up 48 hours later after helping raid a Bishop Auckland clothing shop.
article_snippet.sent: McKerry admitted robbery after stealing £90 from a takeaway delivery man in Coundon while armed with a six inch kitchen knife.
highlights_snippet.sent: Shaun McKerry has been unmasked as axe-wielding thief in local post office raid .
  