Over seven years for man in raid on jeweller’s
Darren Pallas, 33, was described by a judge as a career criminal who part in the attempted robbery at Rolex watch specialists Lister Horsfall in Brook Street.
When staff who activated security shutters the two men who had tried to smash a door and window fled in a stolen BMW but Pallas, of Cross Green Lane, Cross Green, was linked to the crime by DNA which was found on a glove in the abandoned vehicle.
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Hide AdHis trial at Bradford Crown Court heard had already been sentenced to five years in jail for his part in another jewellery shop robbery in Rugby, Warwickshire, in September 2012.
Pallas denied the attempted robbery in Ilkley, but was found guilty.
His seven-and-a-half year sentence would run concurrently with the five-year term he had already received.