Serial robber, 50, is jailed for ten years for holding up bookmakers with WALKING STICK

A crook has been jailed for ten years after carrying out a series of armed robberies using his walking stick to pretend he had a gun. Brett Mullan, 50, folded up his collapsible walking aid and wrapped it in a plastic bag to stage the ambitious south London heists. Brett Mullan, 50, used a collapsible walking stick to pretend he had a shotgun during the heists Mullen, from Gravesend marched into five bookmakers and used stick to do robberies Mullan, 50, used a collapsible stick like this one and wrapped it in a bag to look like a shotgun They pounced as he was leaving his home on April 25 and charged him with robberies in Lee, Norwood, Sutton and Crayford between Monday, 4 April and Sunday, 24 April. Police amassed CCTV of Mullan going in and out of trains on his way to the five robberies Mullan's walking stick crime spree in full Mullan carried out armed robberies on: April 4 - High Street, Sutton April 13 - Burnt Ash Road, Lee April 18 - Burnt Ash Road, Lee April 23 - High Street, Norwood Junction April 24 - Crayford Road, Crayford He had previously pleaded guilty to five counts of robbery and five counts of being in possession of an imitation firearm at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on April 26.