'Prowling' pair robbed drunk man

TWO men were "prowling the streets" late at night looking for vulnerable people to rob, a court has heard.

- JASON EVANS Reporter

When Christopher Palmer and Ceri Gibson identified a target they "befriended" him and, after seeing how much money he had in his pocket, led him off the main road away from CCTV cameras and robbed him.

Swansea Crown Court heard that the pair had done something similar to another person some eight years earlier in almost exactly the same spot.

The court heard that the pair's latest robbery happened on January 27 this year after Palmer and Gibson met a man in Swansea city centre who had gone out for the night with a large amount of cash from his place of work.

On St Helen's Road, the defendants "befriended" the man - who by his own account was drunk - who bought them all drinks from a late-night shop.

Palmer and Gibson then engineered their attack, forced their victim to the gound, threatened to stab him if he resisted and searched his pockets before taking his cash, phone and bank cards. They then made off, leaving their victim to walk to his father's house.