A prison escapee who netted more than £30,000 in a string of robberies while on the run - including an attack on a bookmakers in Gipsy Hill - has been jailed for 11 years.
Anthony Lee Perry, 31, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court last Thursday, for his part in a four-month crime spree between July and October last year.
He, along with accomplice Fabian Dawson, targeted bookmakers, cash-in-transit guards and a post office.
The Crown Prosecution Service said at the time of the offences Perry was an absconder from prison where he was serving a sentence of imprisonment for manslaughter.
One of the robberies saw the two men target William Hill in Gipsy Road on September 1 last year, where they threatened staff with violence.
The court heard how Dawson smashed the door to the counter area and made staff believe he had a gun while Perry forced a staff member to open up the game machines. In total they stole about £1,200 in cash.
Both men pleaded guilty to robbery offences in May.
Perry turned himself in after police issued a photograph of him with a cigarette behind each ear to the public.
Dawson, 29, of Southwark, was jailed for 10 years, six months in May.
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