UNCERTAINTY over CCTV footage means a 34-year-old man must face a third trial.
The jury at the second trial of Heath Vosper was discharged from Croydon Crown Court last Thursday after the foreman told Judge Timothy Stow jurors could not agree on a verdict.
Vosper denies robbing and possessing an imitation firearm at the post office in Martin's newsagents, Eldred Drive, Orpington, on January 6 last year and taking £3,747.
Sub-postmaster Roger Croucher told the court how a man threatened him and the shop manager Marie Devine with a small handgun during the robbery.
Mr Croucher was forced to open the till drawer and the man scooped out the notes.
The court heard some of the notes had been dyed as a security measure.
Dyed notes totalling £95 were found on Vosper, of Highbrook Road, Kidbrooke, when he was arrested days after the robbery.
Vosper said he had got the notes from a drug dealer's house and was at home with his children on the day of the robbery.
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