'Corona has hit me hard': One-legged bandit's toy gun robbery

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Updated September 24 2020 - 9:37pm, first published 3:00pm
ARREST: Zac Rolls-Fitzgerald after his arrest at Elermore Vale in March. He pleaded guilty to armed robbery and is already serving time for an attempted home invasion.
ARREST: Zac Rolls-Fitzgerald after his arrest at Elermore Vale in March. He pleaded guilty to armed robbery and is already serving time for an attempted home invasion.

A ONE-LEGGED man who robbed a 17-year-old boy who came around to his Elermore Vale unit to buy cannabis blamed the coronavirus pandemic for spiking his anxiety and said he needed the money to buy prescription drugs.

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Sam Rigney

Court Reporter

Sam began his Newcastle Herald career as a night police reporter in 2011. He is an experienced court reporter who has won two national court reporting awards, including the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Court Reporting for his coverage of the Hunter's worst serial rapist. Before working at the Herald, Sam was a sports journalist with the Maitland Mercury where he won awards for his coverage of the Newcastle Rugby League salary cap scandal. Sam is a Novocastrian born-and-bred.

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