Avon and Somerset Police are appealing for information after a 58-year-old man who raided a Bath bookmakers at knifepoint in 2011 went missing from prison.
Robert Stevens, aged 58, who was at HMP Leyhill in South Gloucestershire, has not been seen since lunchtime on Sunday 9th March .
He was reported missing at 8.30pm that day.
He is serving a sentence for a series of commercial robberies in 2011.
On 16th September 2011, Stevens robbed a female member of staff at knifepoint at Corals in Bath, making off with £1155.
At his time of arrest in November 2011, he was also charged with three other robberies, two in Bristol and one in Weymouth where a total of nearly £4500 in cash was taken.
He was caught after a BBC Crimewatch appeal led to a member of the public recognising him in Yeovil.
He was jailed for six and a half years.
Robert Stevens is known to live an itinerant lifestyle and may carry his few possessions in a rucksack.
He has in the past travelled extensively throughout the south west (including Avon and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and Dorset police force areas).
He has also lived in the Bristol, Bath, Weston-super-Mar, Taunton and Yeovil areas.
He has in the past used small bed and breakfast establishments as well as hostels and will also camp when accommodation was not available.
Robert Stevens is described as a white man, aged 58-years, 5ft 6ins tall of medium build and clean-shaven with short grey hair.
He sometimes wears small rectangular-shaped glasses, which he often lifts on to his forehead.
Anyone spotting Robert Stevens is advised not to approach but to contact police immediately on 999, quoting Ref MP759/14.
