'If you get the impression that I am appalled by the offence that you have committed, then you are right.'īoth in their 90s, the couple had been awoken by a large crashing sound and found three men in duffel coats standing on their doorstep. 'To not stop what you were doing when you saw how old and vulnerable those two people were … is disgusting. The trio were found guilty of breaking into the South Lake home of Russell and Katie Edwards and attacking them during the early hours of January 6, 2021 'It is beyond my imagination how any young man could look into the face of two elderly people and behave the way you did,' she told them. Judge Black didn't hold back as she sentenced Mears to three years behind bars and his younger co-accused to four-and-a-half years and three years, respectively.
Her husband was hit with a ceramic cat ornament which caused blood to gush from his head, with the young men then wreaking havoc in his home. Ms Edwards said the men hit her over the head with a rolled-up newspaper, stomped on her foot and bruised her hand as they tried to grab her rings.
The trio were found guilty of breaking into the South Lake home of Russell and Katie Edwards during the early hours of January 6, 2021, in a criminal trial late last year.
A judge has slammed three young men who hurled a rolled-up newspaper and a ceramic pot at an elderly couple before callously robbing them.Ĭoolio Dereck Mears, 20, and his co-accused, two men who cannot be named as they were 17 at the time of the attack, were sentenced in Perth District Court by Judge Linda Black on Tuesday.
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