Two "incompetent" robbers who ambushed a Royal Mail cash delivery at a post office owned by their own family were jailed for a total of seven and a half years yesterday.
Cousins George Thomson, 25 – whose father owned the shop in Tranent, East Lothian where his mother was post mistress – and Roche Thomson, 20, were described in court as "comic".
But their £20,000 haul of Sterling and Euro banknotes has not been traced and the security man who was carrying the cash was threatened with a chisel.
Advocate depute Simon Collins, prosecuting, said: "I do not wish to make light of it but the circumstances might be thought almost comic, given the incompetent manner in which it was committed.
"To rob one's relative's post office in broad daylight in front of numerous witnesses in a small town like Tranent where everyone knew or recognised him almost beggars belief."
Judge Lord Brailsford jailed each of the cousins for three years and nine months because Roche brandished the chisel but George had a worse record of previous convictions.
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