An axe-wielding robber who carried out a frightening attack on a Clydebank garage employee in a raid has been jailed for five years.

John Rodden, 33, turned up at Old Mill Garage, in Glasgow Road, armed with the weapon and presented it to the employee before smacking it against the counter.

Two days later, he raided the Scotmid store in Riddell Street after pretending to buy a bar of chocolate.

Rodden, who was on bail at the time, got away with £415 from a cash machine at the garage on April 24. On April 26, he grabbed hold of the drawer of a cash machine at Scotmid and prevented a female employee from closing it before he robbed her of £330.

He admitted the second offence during a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh last month but was found guilty of the axe robbery by a jury.

A co-accused, Patrick Donnelly, 36, was acquitted of the garage armed robbery on a not proven verdict.

Sentence had been deferred for background reports and at the High Court in Glasgow today, Rodden was jailed for five years.