Thompson pulled a “large knife” from her coat, pointed it at the shopkeeper and they told him to empty the till. The shopkeeper picked up a plastic milk crate and swung it towards the robbers to fend them off. Thompson told police she had thrown the knife in a hedgerow near the Mount Estate, and this was recovered. (Image: Dyfed-Powys Police)However 25-year-old John, of Howarth Close in Milford Haven, failed to show up to be sentenced. “You thrust the knife repeatedly at the shopkeeper as he tried to fend you off,” said Judge Paul Thomas KC.