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Son of snooker legend Alex Higgins jailed for robbery

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The son of snooker great Alex Higgins is sentenced to 18 months in prison for robbing a newsagents last January.

The son of late snooker legend Alex Higgins has been given an 18-month jail sentence for robbing a newsagents.

Jordan Higgins, who has a criminal record, dragged the owner into the back of the shop, allowing an accomplice to steal £1,500 worth of cigarettes in a drink- and drug-fuelled incident on January 5.

The 31-year-old's solicitor, Estelle Parkhouse, argued that her client "wasn't thinking clearly" due to the substances in his system.

Alex Higgins, a two-time world champion in 1972 and 1982, was a heavy drinker, smoker and had chaotic periods of debt.

Judge John Porter told the court: "I accept you're somebody who had a difficult upbringing in that you had - through your father - to live through the glare of publicity, a father that according to the statements I have read was hardly an appropriate and proper role model to his son.

"But that's no excuse for you targeting Mr Gee as you did in the early hours of that morning."

His father, nicknamed the 'Hurricane', passed away at the age of 61 in 2010 from throat cancer.

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