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Two Medway men have admitted their part in a series of
raids on bookmakers and banks across Kent.

Gary McMeekin, 35, of Kingswear
Gardens, Strood, and Robert Blackburn, 31, of Copperhouse Road,
Rochester, both pleaded guilty to robbery when they appeared at
Maidstone Crown Court.

McMeekin, who was captured on CCTV
during one of the raids, above, pleaded guilty to six
charges of robbery and possession of an imitation firearm and two
further offences will be taken into consideration.

McMeekin who
was dubbed the Bookie Bandit and is pictured without his disguise,
right, admitted robbing the Coral bookmakers, Friary Precinct,
Strood, on Sunday 29 November 2009; the Coral bookmakers, Gun Lane,
Strood - Monday, November 30, 2009; Choice Bet bookmakers, High
Street, Snodland, on December 2 last year; Coral bookmakers, Friary
Precinct, Strood, on January 13, this year; the Nationwide Building
Society, Strood, March 25 and the Lloyds TSB bank, Perry Street,
Northfleet, on Friday, April 9.

The robberies which will be taking
into consideration, include; Ladbrokes bookmakers, Holborough Road,
Snodland, on January 15, and the William Hill bookmakers, High
Street, Strood, January 18.

Blackburn pleaded guilty to one
charge of robbery in connection to the offence in Northfleet on
April 9.

Both men have been remanded into
custody and are due to be sentenced at the same court next
month.