A bank robber has been jailed for nine years after he passed a note to cashiers in Nottingham claiming he would shoot one and that he had bomb.
Balal Jahangir escaped with more than £4,000 after he struck at Lloyds, in Carlton Hill, on February 1, then at TSB, Netherfield, on August 1.
Judge Michael Stokes QC sentenced Jahangir, 20, of Barnston Road, Sneinton, to five years for the first offence and nine years for the second to run concurrently.
Married Jahangir turned to crime after he was made redundant in January from his job at a firm of accountants and ran up a bill with loan sharks for £4,000, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Judge Stokes told him on Tuesday, December 16, he had pleaded guilty to two robberies on bank cashiers and had left his victims traumatised.
"The first teller was simply going about her business when you came in wearing a hoodie and you handed her a note in which you stated that you were in possession of a gun and you would shoot her if she did not hand over money and put it in a bag.
"It is clear from her victim impact statement that, although she did what you required and followed the bank's practice, this experience has had a particularly serious effect on her. She had nightmares for six to eight weeks. She has had to have counselling. It's not only effected her, it has effected her colleagues and her husband.
"On the second occasion you varied your threat by telling the cashier that you were in possession of a bomb in a note."
