As he stood on the Mobil service station forecourt in Blenheim in the early hours of January 23, Terrence Michael Duckmanton, 44, took a breath and pulled down his black beanie.
With a 30-centimetre-long knife in hand, he walked into the service station where a woman was working.
Desperate for money, he demanded she open the cash register and threatened to harm her if she refused.
He followed her to the register and brandished the blade across the counter while she emptied the night's takings.
Duckmanton also demanded a packet of cigarettes and left the store with items totalling $194.
He walked to his home in Riversdale.
Along the way he dropped the beanie on railway reserve land, put his striped jersey in a clothing bin on Dillons Point Rd and threw the knife into a river.
Blenheim police found him the next afternoon still wearing the boots he had worn during the robbery.
He told police he was "very sorry the lady was involved".
Duckmanton, 44, a plasterer, hung his head and shook it several times as police read the summary of facts in the Blenheim District Court yesterday after he plead guilty to the aggravated robbery of the Grove Road service station.
He was remanded in custody until his sentencing on April 19.
Duckmanton will receive a first strike on his criminal record when he is sentenced.
- The Marlborough Express
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