EVIL TEENAGE MUGGER MARIA HOLGATE, WHO LAUNCHED A

EVIL TEENAGE MUGGER MARIA HOLGATE, WHO LAUNCHED A CAMPAIGN

OF TERROR AGAINST HELPLESS OLD LADIES, WAS JAILED FOR FIVE YEARS

ON FRIDAY.

THE VICIOUS SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD ATTACKED SIX PENSIONERS.

HER

LAST VICTIM, A FRAIL 72-YEAR-OLD GRANNY, WAS HOODED, BRUTALLY

BATTERED, AND ROBBED OF HER WEDDING RING, THE OLD BAILEY HEARD,

BUT HOLGATE WAS SAVED FROM A TOUGHER SENTENCE BY AN

AMAZING SHOW OF REMORSE.

SHE SAID, THROUGH HER BARRISTER MISS NEMONE LETHBRIDGE, THAT

WHEN RELEASED FROM JAIL SHE PLANNED TO PERSONALLY VISIT EACH OF HER

VICTIMS TO APOLOGISE FOR THE TERROR SHE CAUSED THEM.

HOLGATE EVEN PROMISED TO SEEK OUT THE SON OF THE GRANNY SHE

SAVAGELY ATTACKED TO ASK HIM TO ‘GIVE HER A GOOD HIDING.

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SAID MISS LETHBRIDGE: ‘THIS REMORSE WILL BE WITH HER FOR THE

REST OF HER LIFE.

SHE IS BITTERLY ASHAMED OF THE INJURIES SHE CAUSED

TO THOSE OLD WOMEN.

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SHE HAD EARLIER DESCRIBED HOLGATE’S BEHAVIOUR AS ‘VIOLENT,

CRUEL, AND RUTHLESS.

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THE JUDGE, MR RECORDER JAMES CAESAR CRESPI, QC, SAID HE WAS

REDUCING THE SENTENCE BECAUSE OF HER REMORSE, HER YOUNG AGE, AND

BECAUSE SHE HAD CONFESSED TO HER CRIMES.

‘I SENTENCE YOU HOPING AND BELIEVING THAT WHAT HAS BEEN

SAID ABOUT YOU IS TRUE,’ HE ADDED.

BUT THE COURT HEARD THAT HOLGATE’S MOTHER HAD VISITED HER IN

PRISON WHILE SHE WAS AWAITING TRIAL AND TOLD HER: ‘YOU DESERVE 15

YEARS.

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HOLGATE’S SISTER DIANNE, 22, HAD EARLIER BEEN JAILED FOR 10

YEARS FOR ADMITTING JOINING IN THE ATTACK ON THE 72-YEAR-OLD GRANNY,

MRS EMILY SHINE.

MR SIMON SMITH, PROSECUTING, SAID THE TWO SISTERS TRICKED

THEIR WAY INTO MRS SHINE’S HOME IN KINGLAND RD, HACKENY.

THEY

USED DIANNE’S FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, KELLY, TO GET IN BY PRETENDING

SHE NEEDED TO GO TO THE TOILET.

BUT ONCE INSIDE THE FLAT THEY LAUNCHED A SICKENING ATTACK ON

THE DEAF AND DUMB PENSIONER.

THEY VICIOUSLY SNATCHED RINGS FROM THE

TERRIFIED VICTIM, BREAKING ONE OF HER FINGERS.

THEY HOODED HER,

BATTERED HER WITH A CHOPPING BOARD, STRUCK HER WITH A VACUUM CLEANER,

AND LEFT HER COVERED IN BLOOD.

MARIA HOLGATE, UNEMPLOYED, OF CALEDONIAN RD, ISLINGTON,

NORTH LONDON, ADMITTED ROBBING MRS SHINE AND ASSAULTING HER CAUSING

GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM.

SHE ALSO ADMITTED MUGGING FIVE OTHER OLD LADIES

BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND JULY LAST YEAR.

ADD MUGGER.

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