Scots shopkeeper nicknamed 'Rambo' tells how he fought off gun-wielding armed robber
dailyrecord.co.ukA shopkeeper nicknamed ‘Rambo’ told how he fought off a gun-toting robber who has been jailed for eight years over the terrifying raid on his store.
Khalid Mehmood, 65, disarmed the masked thug with his bare hands after the pistol was pointed at him during the hold-up in Edinburgh.The grandad-of-11 battered David McKenzie - known as ‘Crackers’ - over the head with his own weapon and bundled him outside.
Brave Khalid managed to pull off the robber’s balaclava as they fought in the street, prompting McKenzie to tell him: "Listen Rambo, it was only a joke.
Don’t tell the polis."McKenzie, 35, a past customer who was also armed with a knife, was caged at the city’s High Court which heard he had 33 previous convictions.Khalid, a former amateur wrestler who has been known as Rambo for decades, told the Record: “I’m glad he got eight years.
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