1.45PM: A heroin addict who pointed a shotgun at a terrified Wodonga bottle shop attendant during a robbery last year was given more than six years’ jail early this afternoon.
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County Court Judge Roy Punshon ordered Brendan Coleman to spend at least four years behind bars for the BWS armed robbery on July 7.
Coleman showed no emotion — though his mother quietly sobbed — when the maximum sentence of six years and four months was handed down in the County Court in Wodonga.
Coleman, 28, had pleaded guilty to armed robbery, using a firearm when prohibited and handling stolen goods.