A Headcorn postman was hijacked delivering a credit card by a robber who had set up the scam.

During a tussle with one of the gang members, the mailman fell to the ground and was hurt - leaving him so traumatised he later quit.

The victim of the fraud, Jan Ford, had his credit card stopped... and the gang planned to steal the new one when it arrived.

They even cancelled his mobile phone contract so he couldn’t report the theft.

Now one of the men, psychiatric nurse Oluwakemi Adesaogun, 41, has been jailed for 26 months for his part in the scam.

Canterbury Crown Court was told that in 2012 Adesaogun was jailed for five and a half years for fraud

Judge Rupert Lowe said: “This was a sophisticated planned operation aimed at obtaining personal information. It was disgraceful it was carried out with the threat of force.

“This was committed on a public servant.”

Oluwakemi had been with two other thieves who travelled from Essex to Headcorn in a hire car and waited outside Mr Ford’s home in Smarden Road in September last year.

Then as the postman arrived they tried to persuade him to hand over the post but he refused and it led to a member of the gang snatching them away.

The mailman was then threatened and during the robbery he fell over and hurt himself – all caught by CCTV cameras.

The robber then jumped back into the car with Oluwakemi and they drove away, the court heard.

Judge Lowe was told that the postman was so traumatised by the incident he has since quit work.

When police later raided his home in Antelope Road, Woolwich in December last year they discovered a number of credit and bank cards, sim cards, personal correspondence in the names of 11 people and £2000 in cash.

Oluwakemi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal and having items to use in fraud and was given a 26-month jail term.