A WOMAN has spoken of her terror after witnessing an armed robbery at a Bournemouth snooker club.

Giving evidence at Bournemouth Crown Court yesterday, Katrina Jeans told jurors how she had unwittingly got caught up in the raid after going to The Academy in Christchurch Road.

Miss Jeans said she had been with three other people, including Alexander Calder-wood, when violence flared in the early hours of October 22 last year.

Calderwood, 47, of Christchurch Road, Bournemouth and William Grogan, 47, of Belle Vue Gardens, Bournemouth, deny conspiracy to rob.

Martin Willis and Martin Trent, who are both in custody awaiting sentence, have already admitted carrying out the robbery.

Prosecution witness Miss Jeans said she had been at The Academy for about 10 minutes when the robbers struck at 3.26am.

“They were shouting ‘get down’ and people reacted very quickly. I didn’t see the hammer but I saw the gun. It was being pointed into the air by one of the masked men. I heard it being fired and blows being delivered; by that time I had got down.”

When prosecutor James Patrick told Miss Jeans that the incident had lasted less than six minutes, she replied: “It seemed much longer when I was on the floor.”

She told the court that people had waited until “the coast was clear” before getting up from the floor and alerting the police.

Miss Jeans said she had not known Trent but knew Grogan was a part-owner of Deacons pub in Boscombe, where she had been drinking earlier that night.

Mr Patrick told jurors: “I suggest to you that it is clear there is a real association between the defendants, not just these two but between the four of them.

“Is it that Mr Grogan was the one facilitating from a distance, trying to keep himself away from the action and Calderwood was the inside man?

“That will be the issue for you to decide.”

The case continues.