A ONE-ARMED robber who stole £10,000 from a Crumlin scrapyard was ordered to pay back just over £200.

Cardiff Crown Court heard that David John Adams, 45, stole the cash from GLJ Recycling, Pen-y-Fan Industrial Estate, benefiting him to the tune of £10,000.

At a Proceeds of Crime hearing on Thursday, Adams, of no fixed abode, was ordered to repay £258.07 by May 30, a sum which is already in the possession of Gwent Police.

Adams was told if he did not repay the money he would serve an extra eight days of imprisonment.

He is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence after being convicted of one charge of robbery and one charge of being in possession of an imitation firearm last year.

Adams was originally jailed for a total of six years and eight months at Newport Crown Court in September last year, after he admitted the offences.

But the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC, challenged what he deemed the “unduly lenient” sentence and Adams’ sentence was almost doubled.

The court heard CCTV footage showed two men wearing balaclavas and highvisibility jackets entering the yard and each pulling what appeared to be shotguns from a plastic bag, at about 8.30am on March 12, 2012.

One man, wearing an orange vest, went to the office and ordered a member of staff to put all their money in a bag.

The employee put £2,000 from a cash tin into the bag, then produced a Spiderman rucksack containing £8,000 and handed over the cash.

The men drove away in a grey Vauxhall Astra which had been seen in the area shortly before the robbery.

In September, David Aubrey, mitigating for Adams, said he was being put under pressure by people to whom he owed money for drugs.

The men escaped with £10,000 after destroying the yard’s phone line and staff’s mobile phones. The money and imitation firearms were never recovered.