TWO thugs who pressured their method right into a home and stole three youngsters’s piggy banks have been jailed for a complete of eight and a half years.
William Christie, 29, and Christopher Smith, 26, took the youngsters’s cash whereas ransacking a home in Elgin.
They awoke forty six-yr-previous Michael McMann by pulling a sleep Apnoea masks from his face and demanding to know the place a protected was.
In the meantime a thirteen-yr-previous baby was asleep subsequent door because the pair swung a hammer in the direction of Mr McMann who then fled the bed room and home, and the lads escaped.
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Christie, from Elgin and Smith from Keith, each in Moray, pled responsible on the Excessive Courtroom in Glasgow to forcing their means into the home on November 22, 2015, assaulting Mr McMann and stealing three piggy banks.
Decide Lord Boyd sentenced Christie to 4 years and Smith to 4 and a half years.
He advised the pair – who’ve a string of earlier convictions for comparable offences: “This was a constructive assault on Mr McMann, thankfully there was no bodily damage.
“However this was a daunting expertise for him and has additionally affected the thirteen-yr-previous boy who was asleep on the time.”
The courtroom heard Mr McMann was staying at his good friend Craig McDonald’s home that night time and a toddler was staying within the property as properly whereas Mr McDonald was out working as a taxi driver.
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Advocate depute Paul Brown, prosecuting, stated that round 2am Mr McMann was woken up by somebody pulling his sleep Apnoea masks away from his face and shouting “The place’s the protected?”.
He stated: “As he uttered the phrases the male affected a Polish accent.
“Mr McMann then noticed a second male enter the room. He was additionally shouting, “the place’s the protected?” and was additionally affecting a Polish accent.
“The complainer sat up in mattress. He noticed that the second male was holding a claw hammer in his proper hand,which he was swinging in an aggressive method.”
The sufferer stood up, fearful he can be hit and the person swung the hammer in the direction of him. He punched the person to the face and ran previous him and to a neighbour’s home to telephone the police.
It was reported to the police that two males had pressured their means into the home and have been driving round in a silver Subaru sporting balaclavas.
Mr McDonald instantly returned house after he acquired a telephone name telling him what occurred and observed that in one of many rooms three colored piggy banks – one with silver cash and two with coppers – have been lacking.
The courtroom heard Mr McDonald did have a protected in his home with takings from his taxi enterprise which he informed police about.
When he checked the protected he noticed it was undisturbed and undiscovered and could not consider anyone suspicious who knew about it.
Each accused have been later discovered hiding in undergrowth close to to the silver automotive and have been “extraordinarily hostile”.
When interviewed each accused refused to reply questions and made no reply once they have been charged.
It was stated on their behalf that they thought the home was empty once they entered it.
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