London, Oct 24 : A petrol station cashier stunned an armed robber by calmly telling him that she was “too busy to deal with him.”

Linda Faulkner was on duty when David Collinson walked into the petrol station in Cheltenham at around 8pm on February 12 and ordered cashier Hayley Holder to fill his bag with money or else he’ll shoot.

"He then placed down what appeared to be a gun. Miss Holder started to do what he told her and put the notes from the till into the bag. Then when he pointed the gun at her, she started to put £1 and £2 coins into the bag. He added, 'The other till as well', pointing to Linda Faulkner's till,” the Daily Mail quoted prosecutor Brendon Moorhouse, as saying.

But when Holder asked Linda to put money into the bag, the latter flatly refused.

"Hayley came over to me with this red bag and said, 'You've got to put money into it'. I said, 'Whatever for?' She said, 'Because there's a man with a gun'. I said, 'I'm sorry, he'll have to wait, because I'm busy,’” Linda said.

“At the same time I thought I'd better press the panic button. I just carried on serving and ignored the man. I was just absolutely numb. I just got on with it. British people don't stop work just because someone is trying to bully us with guns,” she added.

Linda was given a 200-pound reward by Judge Martin Picton for showing ‘remarkable courage' in standing up to the armed raider.

Collinson, 42, was sentenced seven years in after being convicted of robbery at Gloucester Crown Court. (ANI)