FOUR men who held a security guard at knifepoint have been jailed for their parts in a post office raid.

David Holyoak, 33, of Windsor Avenue, Whitefield, Lee Kirwan, 28, of Mersey Drive, Whitefield, Benjamin Anderson, 29, of Perkins Avenue, Lower Broughton, and Michael Parr, 22, of Naden Walk, Whitefield, have been jailed for a total of 22 years for the robbery on Sunnybank Road, Bury, in March.

All four were sentenced after pleading guilty to robbery.

Parr received eight and a half years, plus one year for burglary; Anderson received five and a half years, plus a year for burglary; Kirwan got four and a half years, and Holyoak three and a half years.

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