Judge fails to sentence mugger at sixth attempt

hackney

A judge has failed in the sixth attempt to sentence a mugger who brutally robbed a 92-year-old widow after he was let out of his psychiatric unit unescorted for an hour. Sanchez Edwards, 28, dragged defenceless Gladys Scriven along the ground in Hackney, east London, after she bravely refused to let go of her handbag. Mrs Scriven was making her way to a medical centre in Hoxton Street on June 27 last year when Edwards came up behind her. Edwards…

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