Police said Loveridge had driven a silver Ford Focus to a single stop on Park Road, Manea, Cambridgeshire, on October 22, 2023.

Officers said Hayden entered the store holding a metal bar.

The shopkeeper locked himself and his mother behind the registers, police said, denying the would-be thief access to the money.

Hayden left empty-handed and the victims were unharmed but shaken.

Loveridge drove off with Hayden but crashed the Focus into a ditch at Byall Fen Drove, near Chatteris.

Loveridge was taken to hospital with minor injuries.