TWO drug addicts have been jailed after they robbed cash from an off-licence in Latchford.

Anthony Boland and Sean Rutland, both homeless and living at Warrington’s YMCA, targeted Bargain Booze, on Westy Lane, at 7.40pm on June 14 while two women shop assistants were on duty.

Warrington Crown Court heard on Tuesday how Boland, aged 39, and Rutland, aged 32, demanded the women open the tills before heading off with £666.

They both disguised themsleves with hoodies but were caught by police near Wilson Patten Street and arrested the following day.

Although neither of the women were harmed, one of them said: “I really believe they would have hurt us if we hadn’t done what they had asked.”

Rutland was sentenced to 44 months in prison in 2008 after he robbed a shop at knifepoint.

Meanwhile Boland spent 12 months in jail earlier this year after committing a burglary.

Judge Thomas Teague said: “It’s obvious you realise and accept this was a serious offence. There was no weapon or violence but it was intimidating.

“There were aggraving features, the fact that there were two of you and two vulnerable victims.”

Rutland was jailed for three years and Boland for two years.