A bungling criminal made detectives' jobstmuch easier when he shouted out his own name at victims he was mugging in a street robbery.
Kyle Wood had his very own Ronnie Pickering moment when he declared his identity asking, "do you know who I am?" as he robbed a victim at knifepoint.
The blunder meant detectives had no trouble tacking down the 34-year-old, who carried out two robberies on strangers in Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
Wood, who wasn't helped by the fact he had a distinctive teardrop tattoo on his face, robbed both men separately as they got off buses in the town shortly after midnight on August 30 last year.
Armed with a knife, the criminal demanded they hand over their valuables in the terrifying attacks which left one of the victims fearing for his life, Derbyshire Live reports.
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Derby Telegraph/BPM Media)When a Samaritan tried to intervene during the second robbery, Woods shouted back asking, "don't get involved, do you know who I am? I'm Kyle Wood, keep the f*** out."
Cocky Woods told Derby Crown court, "I don't care I'm a big bad wolf", before refusing to stick around on the video link from prison to find out his fate.
Wood was heard saying, "get me out of here" before banging on a door while appearing via a link to the courtroom.
The court meanwhile heard Woods had had previous struggles with drub abuse and was known to self-medicate with cocaine.
Jailing Wood for three years and eight months, Recorder Graham Huston said: "Both of these victims were robust, young men but they left the bus and were accosted by you holding a flick knife and for one moment one of them feared for his own life."
Sarah Allen, prosecuting, said the first victim had just alighted a bus from Nottingham and was walking home when he was approached by the defendant.
Ms Allen said: "The victim heard a commotion and thought someone was begging and took no notice but Mr Wood came up to him, held a knife up and demanded he hand over what he had on him.
"He gave him his mobile phone, got home and called the police."
Miss Allen said moments later a second man, who had got off the same bus, was also walking home with his headphones on when Wood, from Long Eaton, began to walk alongside him.
She said that victim removed his headphones asked him what he wanted and was asked by the knifeman "how much money do you have?".
The prosecutor said: "(co-defendant) Aimi Turner ran over and both demanded money from him, pulling his hair while Mr Wood produced the knife and held it against the victim's back.
"He said he could feel the point of the blade so took his wallet out and handed over £10.
"Another pedestrian tried to intervene and shouted at the defendants and was told 'don't get involved, do you know who I am? I'm Kyle Wood, keep the f*** out'."
Miss Allen said the police were called to the scene and both defendants were arrested a short time later.
Turner, 36, denied any involvement in either of the robberies, but later pleaded guilty to the second one.
Wood told he police he felt "ashamed of his actions and does stupid things".
He pleaded guilty to both robberies, possession of a knife and threatening someone with a bladed article.
In a victim impact statement, the second man to be robbed said: "Because everything happened so fast I did not have a moment to keep cool and when he held the knife to my back I feared for my life."
Matthew Smith, for Wood, said his client, who has 19 convictions for 60 offences, had written letters of apology to both victims and carried out the offences during "a self-destruct moment".
He said: "When his life goes off the rails it is a concern because when he stops taking his prescription medicine, he self-medicates with crack cocaine."
Olivia Beach, for Turner, said her client had served the equivalent of a 14-month sentence since being remanded into prison in August last year.
She was handed a 19-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, with 25 rehabilitation sessions and a 12-month mental health treatment programme.