Seven-year term after robber's two-day spree

A rampaging criminal ram-raided supermarkets and robbed a terrified business owner at knifepoint during a two-day spree.

- by Nick Frame

Gavin Forber also broke into a house while a couple slept upstairs and later led police on a high-speed chase with a car he had taken in the burglary.

The 48-year-old, who has more than 100 offences on his record, admitted a string of new offences from earlier this year.

He was jailed for seven years at Leeds Crown Court this week.

Forber had been with an accomplice when they broke into a home in Oakwood Terrace in Pudsey on February 10.

The couple were asleep as the intruders took a purse and computer, but also the car keys to a Hyundai and a VW Golf parked outside, which they consequently stole.

Having got away, just before 5am they approached a worker who was opening up at J&S Food in Wyther Drive, Kirkstall. They put a knife to his neck and demanded cash.