A teenage boy is to be sentenced next month after robbing a Dunfermline convenience store earlier this year.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was 16 at the time he entered the McColl’s shop and Post Office in St Andrew Street on March 26 and threatened staff with a bottle.
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard how one staff member initially thought someone was playing a joke on her when she heard a voice demanding cash, only to be confronted by the boy who was brandishing a bottle of Buckfast when she turned around.
Fiscal Ronnie Hay told the court that the shop worker had her back turned to the main body of the store at around 5.40pm on the evening in question when someone said: “Get the money out of the till.”
The employee turned in the belief a fellow staff member was trying to be funny but she became “immediately scared” when she realised the boy was holding the bottle in a threatening way towards her.
“She believed the bottle was going to be used as a weapon,” the fiscal continued.
The boy then walked beyond the counter area and began taking money from one of the tills, before leaving the shop.
Mr Hay said another staff member had pressed a panic button to alert police and officers quickly arrived on the scene.
Officers viewed CCTV footage, tracked the culprit down and found £297 in cash and a bottle of vodka.
Sheriff James Williamson deferred sentence for the preparation of reports and the boy was remanded in custody, to appear again at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on December 18.
