A Bomaderry armed robber, despite displaying perfect manners, has been jailed for four and a half years.
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Jamie Brent Hall, 42, pleaded guilty to armed robbery with an offensive weapon in Nowra District Court on Tuesday.
The court heard Hall confronted a woman at the Marriott Park Motel on the Princes Highway in Nowra on February 1, while armed with a knife.
The woman had been in Nowra visiting her ill husband in Shoalhaven District Hospital.
Court papers said Hall approached the woman around 9.25pm as she was about to open the door to her motel room.
He attracted the woman's attention by saying, “Excuse me sweetheart”. As the woman turned around he then said, “This is a robbery, give me all your money.”
It was at that stage the woman saw Hall was holding a fishing knife with a 12-15 centimetre blade.
The woman told him she was “visiting her sick husband who was in hospital” and only had $20, which she gave to him.
He then demanded her mobile phone before running off.
Following inquiries Shoalhaven detectives arrested Hall in Bomaderry at about 2.25pm on March 1.
Court papers showed Hall had a lengthy record dating back to 1991 as a juvenile. He had been convicted of robbery armed with an offensive weapon on six occasions as an adult and had been sentenced to numerous terms of imprisonment ranging from three years up to six and a half years.
Judge Anthony Garling sentenced Hall to four and a half years’ jail with a non-parole period of three years and four months.
He will be eligible for parole in December 2020.
