article_snippet: A hopeless robber has been spared jail after A hopeless robber tried to hold up a bookmaker's shop with a tin of pilchards.
article_snippet: The 6ft 4in teenager then hit upon a plan to rob the bookies, where a friend £1,800 was a regular customer.
article_snippet: a friend £1,800 bought a 99p tin of John West pilchards from a friend £1,800 local corner shop and burst into a William Hill in Ilford, Essex, on 20 December last year.
article_snippet: the judge the judge also barred the judge from an betting shop for the next 12 months and ordered the judge to pay a £100 surcharge.
highlights_snippet: The 18-year-old had spent the day gambling pennies in a bid to win it back .
  
highlights_snippet: Rory Seager was today spared jail when Rory Seager appeared at Snaresbrook court .