A TEENAGE shop assistant, a store manager and a customer fought off a raider armed with a 14in carving knife.
The man, dressed completely in black and wearing a baseball cap, entered the Co-op at Fiveways, Preston Drove, Brighton, at 7pm on Saturday.
Terrified
He picked up a basket and, after looking around the shop, went to the back of the counter.
He produced the knife and held it to the throat of a 17-year-old girl working on the till, ordering her to hand over cash.
She refused and her terrified screams alerted the shop's manager, who came running to her aid.
They both grappled with the raider, who was still wielding the knife.
The fight had spilled out on to the pavement when a quick-thinking customer grabbed a fire extinguisher from the shop and used it to hold the robber down until police officers arrived moments later.
A man was due to appear before Brighton magistrates this morning.
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