A man has been jailed for 13 years for an attempted robbery in which the victim was tied up with his own shoelaces in Bury
James Lamb aged 30 of Peel Brow, Ramsbottom, was jailed for the offence on Monday at Minshull Street Crown Court after earlier pleading guilty.
The court heard how Lamb entered a property on Brierley Street, Bury, where he waited for his victim in a communal area.
Once the man, a resident of the property, came back to the address, he was met by Lamb, who was wearing a balaclava and demanded money and drugs – something the victim did not have and was not involved in.
After tying up the man with shoelaces at knifepoint, Lamb searched the man’s room before leaving and taking his Mercedes. However, neighbours were able to free the man and run downstairs, at which point Lamb left the Mercedes and fled the scene.
