- after good samaritan gave chase and robber was impailed on fence
A MAN who knocked a woman to the ground and snatched her handbag ended up suffering more serious injuries than his victim – after impaling his arm on a metal spiked fence when a good samaritan chased him.
Yet he has avoided being sent to jail.
Adrian Gent was left hanging from the spiked fence with a wounded arm before managing to make off, leaving the handbag still dangling.
But a quick-thinking motorist had followed him, despite being threatened, and managed to take a picture of Gent which led to him being identified, Warwick Crown Court heard.
Gent (44) of Villa Road, Radford, Coventry, was given a 16-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered to do 180 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to the robbery.
Sentencing Gent, and ordering him to take part in a rehabilitation activity, Judge Cooke told him: “I don’t for a minute belittle what you did, and I know you don’t trivialise it either.
“It is a terrifying thing for any lady to have her bag pulled off her in the street.
“She was pushed or pulled, and lost her balance and fell, and you ran off with her bag and had the encounter with the very laudable Mr Faulkner.”
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:18 pm