27-year-old woman due in court charged over Hartlepool Tesco Express robbery

Police were called to the store at the Fens shops, on Catcote Road, on Thursday, May 11, after it was reported that a woman “armed with a knife” had threatened shop workers and stolen money from an elderly man.

A woman was arrested in connection with the incident shortly afterwards.

A 27-year-old woman from Hartlepool is due before Teesside Magistrates Court on Saturday, May 13.

She is charged with two counts of robbery, attempted robbery, assault, possession of a bladed article in a public place and threatening a person with a sharply pointed article/blade.