A man who admitted robbing a convenience store in a residential street has been warned he is facing jail.

Richard Whittaker was armed with a kitchen knife when he held up the shop in Clifton Street.

The 25-year-old, of no fixed abode, got away with £230 in the raid on Monday January 23.

Whittaker pleaded guilty to robbery and possessing a bladed article when he appeared at Swindon Crown Court.

Judge Robert Pawson adjourned the case so a psychiatric report can be prepared and remanded him in custody until then.

And he said “Mr Whittaker should be under no misapprehension whatsoever that this is, beyond the most exceptional circumstances, to be a custodial sentence.”