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March 2008 - Ron Kennedy, 77, hit robber Richard Coleman after seeing him attack and rob a female assistant in a Plymouth Spar shop.
Coleman was convicted for the crime along with three other similar incidents, and will serve four concurrent four-year jail sentences.
The 32-year-old would specifically target shops staffed by women, would push them over and grab bank notes from the till.
However, during the first of four robberies he committed in less than a month in March, he was attacked by Mr Kennedy who had called into the shop to buy a lottery ticket.
After seeing the attack he struck Coleman with his walking stick, and recovered £60 of stolen money.
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