Pizza Hut bandit Peter Cherrill robs delivery driver for $79 pizza order including a soft drink
A hungry knife-wielding man has etched his name alongside heavy-hitter armed robbers after he knocked over a Tarneit Pizza Hut delivery man for two large pizzas, a garlic bread and a soft drink.
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A knife-wielding thug pulled off the armed robbery of the century when he knocked over a Pizza Hut delivery driver for a $79 order (plus a soft drink) to feed him and his mates.
Peter Cherrill, 20, was sentenced in the County Court on Wednesday to a two-year community corrections order after pleading guilty to armed robbery.
Cherrill threatened a Tarneit Pizza Hut delivery driver with a knife when the man arrived with his dinner on September 17 last year.
Cherrill, who was 18 at the time, had been playing video games at a friend’s Tarneit home when he rang and ordered two pizzas, garlic bread and a soft drink be delivered for $79.65.
He requested the order be brought to a nearby address, where he and his two friends went and waited outside about 10.50pm.
When the driver arrived he got out and requested payment from the males before getting the food out of the car.
Cherrill then pulled out a knife and pointed it at the man’s chest and face, demanding the pizza and any money he had.
Meanwhile, his two friends took the pizza delivery bag out of the car and ran away, before Cherrill followed.
Judge Fiona Todd summed up Cherrill’s petty profit from the crime.
“Your net gain was dinner … and a soft drink,” she said.
Judge Todd described his actions as “shabby” and “cowardly”.
“While it may seem the theft of pizza and soft drink appears trivial, the means by which you threatened (the victim) are anything but.”
The court heard the Hoppers Crossing man, who was raised as a practising Christian, was unemployed and a heavy beer drinker and user of MDMA during the period when the crime occurred.
He had no prior convictions at the time and it was submitted he was hoping to study horticulture at TAFE.
Judge Todd took into account Cherrill’s early plea and prioritised his rehabilitation in not sentencing him to a period of detention.
Cherrill was also ordered to perform 50 hours of unpaid community work.
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