Quick-thinking granddad’s remark baffles bank robber aiming gun at his wife before wrestling him to the ground
Remark baffled crook, allowing have-a-go hero Tommy Jones to wrestle gunman to the ground after tense stand-off
A GRANDAD foiled a bank raid by telling a robber pointing a gun at his wife: “Shoot her mate, she’s not with me.”
Tommy Jones, 50, said his quick-thinking remark baffled Jonathan Pay, allowing him to wrestle the crook to the ground.
But the trucker was then stabbed by Pay’s accomplice and shot in the face with an airgun.
The pellet is still lodged in his brain.
Dad-of-four Tommy had gone into Lloyds bank in Liphook, Hants, with wife Abbey in May.
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Pay, 46, and his accomplice, who has not been caught, demanded money from the cashier.
Tommy said: “Pay put a gun to my wife’s head and said he’d shoot her if they didn’t get it.
“I said, ‘Shoot her, she is nothing to do with me.’ I called his bluff and it threw him. So I punched him to the floor.”
He also revealed Abbey was not best pleased.
He added: “Afterwards she said to me, ‘Well, thank you very much’.”
Tommy has since been referred to a specialist over the pellet, which has left him in pain and with sleep problems.
He and Abbey, 49, of Headley Down, Hants, are up for a Chief Constable’s bravery award.
Pay, of Lindford, Hants, got 16½ years’ jail at Winchester crown court.