Posted on 05/13/2010 4:16:35 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Confronted by a desperate robber carrying a handgun, most of us would simply get out of the way.
But not 48-year-old Martin Richardson. Hes 18-stone and powerfully built.
Whats more, at the time of this dramatic standoff, he was in a bad mood.
As these extraordinary CCTV pictures show, raider Azar Sulman quite simply picked on the wrong guy.
Father-of-six Mr Richardson stood his ground with his hands in his pockets before attacking Sulman, 20, with a chair.
After flooring the raider, Mr Richardson used a judo move to pin him to the ground and kept him there for seven minutes until police arrived.
Judge Scott Wolstenholme praised the have-a-go heros tremendous courage and awarded him £250 during Sulmans trial at Leeds Crown Court.
The robber was sent to a young offenders institution for six years.
Mr Richardson, in hospital yesterday after breaking his arm in a rugby match, is being recommended for a bravery award.
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He then stood in the way, staring down the barrel of a gun. He wanted me to open the door and kept shouting he would shoot me if I did not open it, he said.
I looked him in the eyes he was just a few feet from me. I thought if he shoots me he shoots me, but I am not opening the door.
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To be honest I was probably a bit stupid doing what I did, but I was being threatened, as were the staff, and I wanted to stop the guy. I did, so it was worth it.
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The robber choose poorly. Mr Richardson is NOT a small weak man.
£200 will be pretty much the same in $. And if the addict is a constant stoner, a 200 a wk habit isnt remarkable.
Only our coach was British. I played for Army (West Point) back when dinasaurs ruled the Earth.
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