This is the dramatic moment two armed robbers burst into a business.

Anthony Sweetman and Ben Medhurst are now beginning prison sentences of 15 years and 10 months and 11 years respectively following the raids last September.

Wearing Halloween masks and brandishing knives they first stormed a newsagent in Dene Holm Road, Northfleet, escaping with £200.

Three days later and again in full face masks Sweetman, 33, of Waterdales, Northfleet, and 41-year-old Medhurst, of Burch Road, Gravesend, burst into a post office in Hartley, threatening staff with guns and making off with £894.

At Woolwich Crown Court on Friday the pair were both jailed with Detective Inspector James Derham saying: "They showed no regard for the effect their actions would have on members of the public and should be ashamed of their actions."

Dramatic CCTV footage show the raids unfolding