TWO HAVE-A-GO HEROES WHO TACKLED A GANG OF ARME

TWO HAVE-A-GO HEROES WHO TACKLED A GANG OF ARMED RAIDERS
CAPTURING ONE – WERE PRAISED BY AN OLD BAILEY JUDGE ON TUESDAY.

COMMENDING WILLIAM TAYLOR AND WILLIAM GARSIDE, JUDGE QUARREN
EVANS, QC SAID: ‘THESE MEN BEHAVED VALIANTLY, MR GARSIDE IN
PARTICULAR IN HANGING ON TO THE ACCUSED.

HE AT LEAST ENSURED
THAT ONE OF THESE INVADERS IN HIS HOUSE THAT NIGHT WAS BROUGHT TO
JUSTICE.

‘
BUNGLING BANDIT RAYMOND BUCKELL WAS JAILED FOR FIVE YEARS
FOR HIS PART IN THE RAID ON THE HOUSE IN LONG LANE, HILLINGDON,
WHERE BOTH MEN LIVE.

BUCKELL, THE COURT HEARD, HAD GONE TO THE HOUSE WITH THREE
OTHER MEN ALL MASKED WITH BALACLAVAS AND ARMED WITH LEAD COSHES.

TAYLOR OPENED THE DOOR TO THEM WHEN HE HEARD THEM SHOUT
‘POLICE.

OPEN UP.

‘
BUT THE MEN RUSHED IN AND STARTED BEATING MR TAYLOR ABOUT
THE HEAD.

HIS CRIES FOR HELP BROUGHT MR GARSIDE TO THE DOOR WHERE
BOTH MEN BRAVELY FOUGHT THE RAIDERS OFF.

BUCKELL WAS CAUGHT BY MR TAYLOR.

MR GARSIDE THEN GRABBED HIM
AND SAT ON HIM UNTIL POLICE ARRIVED AND ARRESTED HIM.

THE OTHER
THREE ESCAPED.

BOTH MEN RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES BUT WERE NOT DETAINED IN
HOSPITAL.

BUCKELL, 43, UNEMPLOYED, OF NORMANTON ROAD, BASINGSTOKE,
HANTS, WAS FOUND GUILTY BY THE JURY OF AGGRAVATED BURGLARY WITH
INTENT TO INFLICT GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM, AND WOUNDING MR TAYLOR
WITH INTENT TO CAUSE GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM, ON MARCH 31 THIS YEAR.

HE WAS ACQUITTED OF CAUSING ACTUAL BODILY HARM TO MR
GARSIDE.

JAILING BUCKELL, WHO HAS PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS FOR ROBBERY,
THE JUDGE TOLD HIM: ‘YOU HAVE A TERRIBLE RECORD FOR OFFENCES OF
DISHONESTY AND VIOLENCE.

ONE CAN ONLY SPECULATE AS TO THE REAL
REASON FOR VISITING THAT HOUSE.

‘IT MUST HAVE BEEN A FRIGHTENING EXPERIENCE FOR THE

OCCUPANTS AND A FRIGHTENING THREAT TO ANY CITIZEN WHEN IN THEIR

OWN HOME THEY COULD BE FACED WITH AN ARMED INVASION AS TOOK PLACE

THAT NIGHT.

‘

BUCKELL DENIED GOING TO THE HOUSE TO CARRY OUT AN ARMED RAID

BUT ADMITTED GOING THERE TO FRIGTHEN THE VICTIMS AFTER A FAILED

BUSINESS DEAL.

THE OTHER MEN INVOLVED HAD NEVER BEEN TRACED.

ENDS