A gang have been sentenced to more than 33 years after a woman was held by her throat and threatened with a claw hammer in her home.
Four defendants were locked up after a hearing at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday, September 19.
They targeted a couple’s home in Kirkby-in-Ashfield for no clear reason in the morning of Monday, March 24.
One of the defendants gave an explanation of collecting a debt from the husband but he was not even there at the time of the burglary.
Defendant Shiero Marquis was given ten years after he went into the house and found just the wife waiting for the morning shopping delivery.
He grabbed her around the throat, pushed her in to her bedroom and repeatedly threatened her with the hammer, trying to force her to reveal where money and jewellery would be.
The woman, who we have chosen not to identify, was not injured but remains traumatised.
She shook during her evidence at the trial of Marquis and co-accused Aaron Adams.
Marquis, 24, of Alfreton Road, Radford, and Adams, 28, of Ransom Road, St Ann’s, were found guilty of aggravated burglary after a trial this month.
Adams received 11 years in prison after he was the “prime mover”, said the judge, and the most intelligent member of the gang.
Adams had waited outside with another man, who was the getaway driver, and will be sentenced next week.
Defendant Tramaine Morley, 21, of Lathkill Close, Bulwell, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years, and accomplice Kaylum Danachie, 17, of Bilborough Road, Nottingham, got five years.
Judge Stokes praised neighbours who helped catch the gang, awarding them each large cash rewards, and complimented police who prepared the case.
“No doubt you all thought you had got away it,” the judge told the four.
“But two householders living in the same street as the victim had seen you rushing back to the car.
“One of them noted, almost 100 percent accurately, the registration number of the car.
“Within a few minutes you were being following by PC Bradshaw and PC Coffin in their unmarked Land Recovery Discovery.”
Would this happen under a BNP Government - NO
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