London: A woman shopkeeper in her 50s showed remarkable courage when she grabbed a knife-wielding robber and dragged him out of her shop in the UK.
The woman was working behind the counter when hoodie-wearing robber pulled a blade on her at Lanhydrock Stores, Plymouth, and demanded cash.
But instead of handing over cash the shop-owner grabbed him by the hands and dragged him round the store.
The victim, who does not wish to be named, pulled him all the way to the door and threw him out before defiantly slamming the door.
Plymouth Crown Court was told Edward Stevenson, 41, entered the shop on March 30 at about 7pm, Daily Mirror reported.
The Lanhydrock Stores shopkeeper, in her personal impact statement, said when she saw the robber her first emotion was "pure shock and instant fear".
"Something inside me kicked in, something I partly regret now. I subconsciously thought 'why should you steal my hard earned money', the time I have to spend away from my family to get it," she said.
"Was I mad grabbing a man with a knife? Absolutely? he could have killed me. My children would have had no mother. Was it really worth it? No."
The brave victim said she had suffered delayed shock and was forced to close early for a number of following days out of fear.
She said she had begun to see Stevenson in her dreams and her regular customers "holding out a knife at me rather than handing out money. Was I losing my mind? I feel like my life has been taken away from me."
The court watched store's CCTV footage which captured the dramatic act.
Recorder John Williams sentenced Stevenson, of Plymouth, to three years for the robbery, one year for the attempted robbery to run concurrently.
