CCTV issued of hammer attack on jewellery shop worker
after gang members jailed
Five members of a robbery gang have been handed lengthy jail
sentences after a jewellery shop worker was hit with a hammer during a £250,000
raid.
CCTV cameras footage
released by West Midlands Police captured one of the men posing as a customer
to trick staff into opening the door at SP Green in Birmingham’s Jewellery
Quarter.
The security cameras
film also shows a smoke shield being triggered, gang member Owen Richardson
lashing out with a hammer, and accomplices Daijon Johnson and Jamul
Pinnock-Parkes ransacking the store.
Pinnock-Parkes, Johnson and a 17-year-old gang member who failed
to get into the shop, were arrested after fleeing the scene and calling a taxi.
Richardson and getaway
driver Jermaine Davis were arrested the following day in a Renault Megane seen
at the time of the offence.
West Midlands Police said
the defendants were convicted at Birmingham Crown Court after CCTV cameras around the
city captured their movements before and after the raid on January 6 last year.
Richardson, of Frankfort Street, Newtown, was jailed for 14
years for conspiracy to rob and possession of class A drugs with intent to
supply.
The 21-year-old denied the
conspiracy charge, but was convicted after a jury spent just 11 minutes
deliberating.
Johnson, 20, of Sherborne
Grove, Ladywood, admitted conspiracy to rob, and an unrelated robbery, and was
jailed for 12 years and eight months.
From top left, Daijon Johnson,
Jamul-Pinnock-Parkes, Jermaine Davis, Owen Richardson and Bradley Devine, who
have been jailed for their parts in the robbery (West Midlands Police/PA)
Pinnock-Parkes, 20, of
Manilla Road, Selly Park, admitted conspiracy to rob and was jailed for nine
years and 10 months.
Davis, 27, of Icknield
Port Road, Edgbaston, admitted conspiracy to rob and possession with intent to
supply and escaping from lawful custody. He was jailed for 14 years and 11
months.
Bradley Devine, 25, of
Four Acres, Quinton, who posed as a customer to allow the gang access, was
jailed for 10 years in May last year after admitting conspiracy to rob and
other offences.
The 17-year-old, who
cannot be named for legal reasons, will be sentenced on December 15 after
admitting conspiracy to rob.
Reference:
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