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Welcome to another edition of UK Crime Caught on Camera - this time we’re covering have-a-go-heros.

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00:00Hello and welcome to another edition of UK Crime Caught on Camera. This time we're covering

00:08have-a-go heroes, folks who stood up for themselves or others in the face of criminal danger.

00:30What you're watching here is West Midlands police officers attempting to detain an aggressive

00:35man on the streets of Birmingham when suddenly another becomes involved. He attacks the police

00:43with a bicycle. The police try to bring the man under control but he then throws a bowl

00:49of fruit from a nearby stall at an officer. But that's when shopkeeper Abdul Gildari stepped

00:59in and brought the man to the ground. He said he got angry when the man threw his fruit.

01:05In the aftermath, one officer can be seen on the ground with a head injury. The bicycle attacker

01:16was jailed for six months for two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and possession

01:22of cannabis. The man who officers were detaining initially was jailed for three

01:29counts of aggravated bodily harm and put behind bars for seven months.

01:37Mr. Gildari, father of six and originally from Afghanistan, said,

01:43When I saw he took my bowl, it shook me up. One hook and I had him on the floor. I was angry.

01:49I helped the police and he went down. More police came and took the men away. This is my business.

01:56I love my country and I wanted to help the police, help my job and my business.

02:04I have run this business for a year now. I've never had this before.

02:08People usually have respect and there's no problem.

02:26This is the moment a gun-wielding robber threatens staff and robbed a store in West Yorkshire.

02:34He steals cash from a till and also steals a woman's car keys. Prior to this,

02:38he robbed two men. Yet it's what happens next that stops him in his tracks.

02:46Shop worker Niall Stranix, aged 61, is mopping the floor in the background here as the robber

02:52is in the middle of threatening his female colleague and demanding cash.

02:57Big Niall grabs the robber from behind and throws him off balance and even wrestles him back despite

03:02the continued attack and presence of a gun. Now the pistol had started to break apart

03:07as the two fought and was later believed to have been a plastic BB gun.

03:13The man was forced to flee the scene empty-handed with Niall still in pursuit.

03:18Officers later nabbed the robber. He pled guilty to robbery,

03:22firearms, assault and driving offences and was jailed for 10 years.

03:42Now we're back in the West Midlands where we're about to see a brave individual take on a burglar

03:47wielding a machete. The man stepping out of the car there had just carried out a shop raid where

03:53he stole £15,000 worth of cigarettes and a safe. He takes the safe from the boot and tries to smash

04:01it open. However, the crooks are disturbed by a man who comes into the yard early for work.

04:09The burglar then goes to confront the worker fearing he and his crew have been busted

04:16and moments later he legs it back to his car and pulls out a foot-long machete.

04:23He then charges at the worker who is currently off screen but as you see from his reaction

04:30our have-a-go hero has his own weapon, a plank of wood. He chases after the machete thug

04:37and sends him running. Police later did rumble the burglar and a search of his vehicle found

04:42tools used in the burglary plus cash and Viagra tablets stolen from the shop.

04:51He was later jailed for four years. The hero worker wasn't named but was nominated for a

04:57bravery award by West Midlands Police in recognition of his courage.

05:07This next video contains no footage of the attack itself but does contain graphic imagery and a

05:20first-hand account of a violent encounter from TV actor David Pugh where he describes defending his

05:27home against machete-wielding burglars in 2020. Viewer discretion is advised.

05:33It's about three o'clock on Monday morning, heard a loud bang. I thought some furniture had

05:40gone over in my son's room so I dashed out of bed, dark naked as you are in bed,

05:47and as I approached my door it was kicked in very violently and the landing was just

05:54full of four guys in balaclavas. Just instinctively went for them,

06:00we ended up having a sort of ongoing battle in the bathroom on the landing, you know, I was fighting

06:07one, I was getting hit on the back of the head by another which is what caused all the blood in the

06:11bathroom, I had several bad cuts to my head. Desperately really trying to reach my son's

06:17room because he's 17 and he had his girlfriend with him and I didn't know what was going on.

06:22Three o'clock in the morning you wake up, you just don't expect things like this.

06:28So we had this sort of ongoing battle for a while and then in between they'd kicked all the doors

06:34in so every door frame's ruined and there's blood everywhere. We told them there was, you know,

06:41there's no money, there's nothing in the house so just to get out and I think it's probably only

06:47went on five or six minutes but it was very violent, very brutal. There was a machete, there was

06:54baseball bats, there was a golf club and I think in the end, I think I can only assume,

07:01see me just covered in blood. I just assume they thought they'd come too far or panicked or

07:09whatever and realised there was nothing in the house anyway and they, to avoid the cameras,

07:15they smashed the side window in the porch and escaped out that way.

07:26This dramatic footage shows the moment a duo of thugs, one of whom is armed with a shotgun,

07:32are sent packing by a shopkeeper and his cricket bat. Tony Banger jumped into action after the

07:39thugs burst into his store and demanded money from the till. Despite the presence of a shotgun,

07:45Mr Banger courageously grasped the weapon as the gunman tried to pull the trigger.

07:51He then instinctively grabbed the cricket bat which was lying on the counter after playing

07:56in the park with his kids before chasing the raiders out of the shop. His wife and kids were

08:02upstairs during the ordeal. The duo of thugs were jailed for a combined total of 10 years.

08:09This is a shocking moment, a thug wearing a sinister clown mask burst into an off-license

08:24wielding a knife before being foiled by another have-a-go hero, shopkeeper.

08:31The clown thug went in hoping to scare the worker but the brave shop worker was having none of it.

08:38He refused to hand over the cash and fought off the clown with his bare hands.

08:43As the brawl ensued, the pair knocked into displays

08:47bringing them crashing down, scattering food and other items across the floor.

08:51Scattering food and other items across the floor.

08:57But the shop worker got the upper hand and was able to hold the thug down until police arrived.

09:04He received a two-inch cut in his leg, was part of a tooth and suffered other cuts and bruises.

09:10The thug pled guilty to attempted robbery and possession of a bladed article and was jailed

09:15for five years. The thug's defense said he was high on cocaine and heroin at the time.

09:23The defense also explained that he didn't intend for a confrontation to happen

09:27and that the clown mask and knife were a scare tactic. Also adding the thug was horrified when

09:33the shopkeeper reacted how he did and tried to flee from the shop several times.

10:03This shocking CCTV footage shows a dad of two having a weapon pointed at his face

10:10as his scared young daughters look on.

10:15Sibu Kuruvilla said he had been helping colleague Najib Nassar

10:19pose up for the evening when the masked job entered the store. He demanded cash and was armed.

10:26The shopkeeper told his daughters to hide away in the office as he bravely approached the man.

10:33He was then able to use a secret panic alarm as he opened the till

10:37before ripping the gun from the robber's hands and throwing him to the ground.

10:43A five-minute struggle ensued during which a magazine rack toppled over

10:47and Sibu's colleague was repeatedly hit over a head with a bottle of Prosecco.

10:55They were finally able to overpower and detain the man before waiting for the police to arrive.

11:00The thug was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison

11:04after admitting to four related robberies and five counts of possession of an imitation firearm.

11:11The bravery of the shop owner was later commended at the Chief Constable's award ceremony in 2019.

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