CASH stolen during an armed raid at a Selby store has been confiscated by the courts.

Ian Gary Wynne, 43, was jailed indefinitely earlier this year for terrorising a woman at Farmfoods during a robbery in October last year.

York Crown Court heard he went into the shop in Micklegate wearing a helmet and pulled out an imitation gun. He pointed it at the assistant shop manager and demanded that she hand over money.

Minutes earlier, Wynne had phoned the shop claiming to be a police officer. His tale of investigating thefts by an employee tricked her into taking him into the shop’s back office where the money was kept.

He got away with £2,276 during the raid on October 22 last year – of which £1,361.31 was seized by officers shortly after Wynne’s arrest.

Yesterday, the prosecution was granted a confiscation order to make sure this money would not be returned to Wynne.

The Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, also made a compensation order to ensure the £1,361.31 was paid to Farmfoods.

Wynne, of Monkhill Avneue, Pontefract, pleaded guilty to robbery and possessing a BB gun and was given an indefinite prison sentence in May.

The store worker was so terrified it was months before she could return to work. She needed counselling and treatment for depression.

Judge Ashurst described the raid as “professional” and “planned” by Wynne, who had already served a ten-year sentence for similar raids on bookmakers and travel agencies in the late 1990s.

His barrister, Simon Kealey, said financial pressure had forced Wynne to resume his robbery career.