THE ‘getaway driver’ from an armed robbery has told a jury his mate put a gun to his head after holding up Oaksey Post Office.

Kieren Wheeler said he had no idea passenger Zak Bradbury was about to carry out the raid as he thought he was dropping him off at his mum’s house.

And when the gunman got back into the car he said the pistol was pointed at his left cheek and he was told ‘Drive, or I’ll do something to you you don’t want me to’.

Wheeler, 19, who was behind the wheel of 21-year-old Bradbury’s Renault Clio, added ‘I though he was going to shoot’.

The teenager from Swindon was giving evidence to his trial where he denies involvement in the robbery in the village near Malmesbury.

He said he agreed to give Bradbury, who he had known for about three weeks, a lift to his mum’s house ‘near Malmesbury’ first thing on Wednesday, May 18.

On the way they had stopped for petrol but when he realised he had forgotten his money he said he drove off without paying, planning to return later with the cash.

He said he was going to go on to work as a double glazing rep for Safe Style Windows, where he had also got Bradbury a job, in the Wantage area.

After dropping off his colleague at what he thought was his mum's he said they agreed if he didn’t come straight back out Bradbury would collect the car at a later date.

But Wheeler said he was shocked when, as he was pulling away, Bradbury jumped back in, threatened him, and told him to drive to Chippenham railway station.

When they got close he said they saw the police following so he decided to go his brother’s place at Pym House in Calne.

He said he was still in fear when they arranged to get a lift to Swindon only to be arrested in the car park of the flats.

At an earlier hearing Bradbury, of no fixed abode, admitted robbery, possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and having a knife.

Wheeler, of Magnolia Court, Pinehurst, pleaded not guilty to the charges and is standing trial at Swindon Crown Court.

DC Sam Hopkinson told the jury when they seized Wheeler’s smart phone it was PIN locked, and he refused to give them the code to open it.

When experts got into it they found a series of texts and phone calls between him and Bradbury the day before as well as video footage.

It revealed in the two weeks before the raid they had contacted each other nearly 200 times, including on numerous occasions the day before.

And when the men were arrested a roll of £430 in five, tens and £20 notes was found on the floor of the car which had been held together by a hair band.

A forensic scientist analysed the band and said there was ‘strong support of Kieren Wheeler contributing DNA rather than not providing DNA’.

Giving evidence the defendant said his hair had been long until shortly before so the band could easily have been his and at his brother's house.

Bradbury had a wad of £450 in fivers and tenners in his pocket and the BB gun which had been used in the robbery in his waistband.

The jury has also been shown video footage from Wheeler’s mobile showing the two men as they were out driving in the same car the morning before the robbery.

In the film Wheeler is seen driving as Bradbury films, while one of them is heard boasting about the speed they were going, while having no insurance or MOT.

As the camera focussed on a large rural property a voice is heard saying ‘Countryside houses out here: big burglary things’.

The jury was also told that the men had twice shared a cell while on remand in custody, but Wheeler insists they did not discuss the case in that time.

Wheeler denies all the charges and the case continues.