A ROBBER was jailed for ten years by an Old Bailey judge on Tuesday after admitting stealing £150,000 cash and travellers’ cheques from an American Express office armed with a dummy gun and a fake bomb.
Davood Ramezanzadeh, 51, of Bassett Street, Kentish Town, went into the American Express office in Holborn on November 25, 2001, holding the gun and a box tied with ribbon which he said had a bomb inside.
He made off with £121,000 in cash and $54,000 in travellers’ cheques. It was just one of a series of raids Mr Ramezanzadeh made.
His spree was brought to an end after he was arrested after holding a 25-year-old woman hostage at the American Express branch in The Haymarket in June 2002.