Jamie Curtis committed six burglaries and two armed robberies at Norfolk stores in the space of just a few weeks.

The 31-year-old, from Saxlingham Nethergate, carried out the spree targeting businesses and homes in a cluster of villages and Norwich suburbs close to his home as he tried to pay off a drug debt.

The two robberies were both at Premier stores - in Poringland and on Sandy Lane, Norwich - and were both carried out when women were working there alone.

King's Lynn Crown Court heard the Sandy Lane worker had been left so traumatised by her ordeal that she had left her job of seven years. King's Lynn Crown Court (Image: Newsquest) The first robbery was at the........

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