A young Northlander jailed for a serious aggravated robbery told a court he wanted to get out of gangs and criminality to show his "little cousins" there were better things to do in life.
Daniel Cameron, 25, acknowledged the harm his offending caused his mother and that one day, he would like to make her proud.
Cameron, together with Kaipara Anderson, 19, terrorised staff during an armed robbery of The Warehouse in Dargaville and stole more than $242,000 worth of jewellery and $27,600 in cash and cheques.
Cameron was jailed in the High Court at Whangārei to five years and two months imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to five charges of kidnapping, and one of aggravated robbery. He received his second strike warning.
Anderson was sentenced in the Whangārei District Court in January this year to five years and 10 months in prison for his part in the robbery.