Worst disguise ever? Jamie Neil captured on CCTV with a clear plastic bag on his head (Picture: SWNS)

This bungling robber could be Britain’s stupidest criminal after holding up a petrol station with a plastic bag over his head.

Jamie Neil, 41, and accomplice Gareth Tilley, 20, were drunk and high on stolen medication when they decided to rob a Co-op petrol station store in St Austell, Cornwall, in September last year.

The grabbed ‘the nearest thing’ they could find to use as a disguise, with the less resourceful Neil opting for the translucent carrier bag.

Using a mobile phone as a pretend gun, the pair were rumbled when the handset lit up and a cashier hit the alarm, Truro crown court heard last week.




Neil then head-butted the female employee before the pair made off several bottles of spirits.

Detective Constable Steve White said the plastic bag disguise, caught on CCTV, was the most ‘ridiculous’ he had ever come across.

‘Before arriving at the location Tilley disguised his face using a scarf and Neil, being less resourceful, put a plastic bag on his head,’ he said.

‘I investigated the case with CCTV and forensic evidence used to identify the assailants.’

Neil, of Bethel, Cornwall, was convicted of robbery and jailed, while Tilley, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty last November.