SENTENCE has been deferred for a personal appearance on a 20-year-old man who carried out an armed robbery in Innerleithen.
Marques Monroe pleaded guilty to assaulting a female employee by brandishing a knife, attempting to rob her of a holdall containing cigarettes and robbing her of a bottle of alcohol.
Monroe - who gave an address care of his parents in Nottingham - also admitted possession of a knife at the Caddon Court store in Innerleithen on May 14 last year.
He was due to be sentenced at Jedburgh Sheriff Court on Monday.
But defence lawyer Ross Dow told the court that the clutch had broken on his father's car on the journey to Scotland and they had turned back home.
The case will recall on July 10 when Monroe will require to provide vouching from the RAC about the breakdown as they had been called out.
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