IT’S every shopkeeper’s worst nightmare.

One minute you are going about your normal business, the next you are staring down the barrel of a sawn-off shotgun.

But that was exactly the scenario Ranjit Singh Dhami faced when gun-toting robbers burst into his Frankley convenience store in August this year.

But the brave dad-of-two was determined not to let the would-be thieves steal his hard-earned cash.

Instead, he stubbornly refused to hand over his takings and chased the masked gang out of the store empty-handed.

“I was working in the shop on my own when they just came running and demanded money,” he said.

“I said: ‘I’m not going to give you anything’.

“Two of them had shotguns in their hands. They pointed them at me but I wasn’t going to hand anything over.

“They threw a bag at me and told me to fill it but I told them I wouldn’t.

“I went round the counter and they did a runner.”

Amazingly, Mr Dhami says he didn’t have time to be frightened by the experience.