This is junkie Andrew Logan who faces a long time in prison after a series of cashpoint muggings.

In fact, he does not know when he'll be let out after becoming only one of a handful of criminals in the UK to be given a second indeterminate jail sentence.

His own lawyer even believes the "key has been thrown away" after he held up a man with a knife while the victim's wife waited in a car nearby on a night out to mark their wedding anniversary.

Logan, 31, of Fairway Close, Rochester, was given his first indeterminate sentence, with a minimum of two-and-a-half years before parole would be considered, in April 2006. He was released on licence four years later in April last year and committed the latest offence just five months afterwards.

Judge Michael Carroll found Logan was still dangerous and ordered that he should serve three years before his release could even be considered.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the latest victim Christopher Judges had been celebrating with his wife Christine when they stopped at the cash machine in Bearsted, near Maidstone.

Mrs Judges sat in the car as her husband started to withdraw cash. He was about to enter the amount when Logan ran down a grass bank wearing a hoodie and brandishing a knife.

He told the victim to move away from the machine. Mr Judges returned to his car and drove off. He stopped down the road and called the police. No cash was taken.

Officers stopped a car as it left the M20. Logan was crouching down in the passenger seat. His girlfriend Gemma Willson, 22, was driving.

Keith Yardy, prosecuting, said a small hammer was found in the footwell. Miss Willson said she had knives in the car because she was going to kill herself.

Alan Gardner, defending, said there was no evidence Logan intended to use the weapons when carrying out robberies.

"The parole board will take a huge degree of persuasion to invest trust in him again," he said. "He did a large amount of good work in prison. All this has been thrown into the dustbin.

"A determinate sentence will mark the seriousness of his offending. If you [the judge] take the view there should be an IPP sentence, that is really throwing away the key."

Judge Carroll said it was "remarkable" that Logan, who admitted robbery, was on licence at the time having been released from prison for an identical offence.

He told Logan: "You targeted a vulnerable person at a cashpoint at night using a weapon and you were on licence." It was now a case, he said, of "if and when" he would be released.