Armed gang hold saw to victim's throat - then realise they've targeted the wrong house

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Armed gang hold saw to victim's throat - then realise they've targeted the wrong house

Postby dutchman » Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:21 pm

A family was also threatened with knives and a machete

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An armed gang broke into a Coventry family’s home and terrorised them, holding a saw to the neck of one of the women before realising they had targeted the wrong house.

Two sisters and their brother were also threatened with knives and a machete during the "terrifying" break-in.

Neighbours were alerted to the raid by the screams of the victims.

The raiders eventually fled from the house in Chandos Street, Upper Stoke, but one of them was later arrested after spots of his blood were found.

And Flavio Dias, 19, from Hornchurch, Essex, was jailed for five years and four months after pleading guilty at Warwick Crown Court to attempted robbery.

Dias, who had a previous conviction for robbery when he was 14, was identified as one of the intruders after spots of his blood were found at the scene.

Sentencing Dias, Judge Anthony Potter told him: “You are not from the Midlands, you’re from Essex, and that means you travelled up from Romford.

"That is significant, because you had every opportunity to consider what you were going to do with the bat you had and the saw one of your associates had and the knife another had.

“I have no doubt as you travelled up with three others there was a discussion of what you were going to do.

“Quite why your intelligence did not come to bear and led you to realise that what you were going to do was not only wrong, but was dreadfully wrong, I don’t know.

“The family were asleep and their first indication that something untoward was going to happen was when they heard noises downstairs.

“It does not take much imagination to understand how terrifying it must have been – and that was before they saw you coming into the house carrying weapons.”

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