Ceri Gibson (left) and Christopher Palmer

Two men were "prowling the streets" late at night looking for vulnerable people to rob, a court has heard.

When Christopher Palmer and Ceri Gibson identified a target they "befriended" him and, after seeing how much money he had in his pocket, led him away from CCTV cameras and robbed him.

Swansea Crown Court heard the pair had done something similar to another person some eight years earlier in almost exactly the same spot.

The court heard that the pair's latest robbery happened on January 27 this year after Palmer and Gibson met a man in Swansea city centre who had gone out for the night with a large amount of cash from his place of work.

On St Helen's Road the defendants "befriended" the man - who by his own account was drunk - and the s

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