Sandwell man jailed for armed robberies

A Sandwell man has been jailed for 15 years for two armed robberies in the space of two days. Imran Mahmood, from Edgbaston Road, Smethwick, burst into Windmill News and Booze on the afternoon of 29 January earlier this year and threatened the shopkeeper with an imitation revolver style handgun and demanded cash. The following afternoon the masked 40-year-old brandished the gun at the shopkeeper of a convenience store in Portland Road, Edgbaston. This time he pulled the trigger and the