TWO SECURITY GUARDS, ONE A WOMAN, WERE VICIOUSLY

TWO SECURITY GUARDS,
ONE A WOMAN, WERE VICIOUSLY ATTACKED AND OVER #16,000 SEIZED IN A RAID
OUTSIDE LEYTONSTONE TUBE STATION LAST JUNE.

CS GAS WAS
USED IN THE ATTACK ON THE TWO GUARDS, AFTER THEY HAD MADE A COLLECTION
FROM THE TUBE STATION.

TWO MEN WERE GIVEN JAIL SENTENCES AT
THE OLD BAILEY TODAY, AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO ROBBERY.

DAVID NELSON AND ROY BALFOURTH WERE TOLD BY RECORDER MR BELL THAT ‘A
CUSTODIAL SENTENCE CANNOT BE AVOIDED WITH A CRIME OF THIS NATURE.

‘
MR GINO CONNOR,PROSECUTING, TOLD THE CRT THAT ON THE
4TH JULY LAST YEAR THE TWO SECURITY GUARDS, MR ALAN MCINTYRE AND MISS
DEBRA MORRIS PARKED NEAR THE TUBE STATION AND WALKED INTO THE TICKET
OFFICE TO MAKE A COLLECTION.

THE TWO LEFT THE STATION CARRYING #16,827 IN CASH AND #8,936
IN CHEQUES.

BUT AS THEY HEADED FOR
THEIR VAN THREE MEN ATTACKED THEM.

BALFOURTH
STRUCK MR MCINTYRE,32, ACROSS THE THIGHS AND KNEES WITH A WOODEN CHAIR
LEG.

MISS MORRIS,23, WAS PUSHED TO THE
GROUND, AND ONE OF THE GANG PUSHED A CANISTER OF CS GAS UP THE GAP IN
HER VISOR AND SPRAYED THE GAS INTO HER EYES.

SHE DROPPED THE BAGS
AND THE GANG RAN OFF WITH THEM, LEAVING THE GUARDS INJURED ON THE
GROUND.

THE ROBBERS THEN JUMPED INTO NELSON’S LANCIA,
AND MADE THEIR GETAWAY.

NELSON, 19, OF 112 NAVESTOCK CRESECENT,
WOODFORD GREEN, WAS ARRESTED 12 DAYS LATER AFTER PAYING #200 INTO HIS
BUILDING SOCIETY ACCOUNT.

BALFOURTH,23,OF 83 HOLLYDOWN WAY, LEYTONSTONE,WAS ARRESTED SOON
AFTER, AND #1,360 IN BANKNOTES FOUND UNDER A MATTRESS IN HIS HOUSE.

THE OTHER MEN INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT HAVE
NOT YET BEEN ARRESTED.

BALFOURTH TODAY HAD ONE MORE DAY TO SERVE OF
A 13 MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR FRAUD.

THE RECORDER DESCRIBED HIM AS HAVING ‘A RATHER GRIM RECORD FOR
DISHONESTY AND VIOLENCE’ AND SENTENCED HIM TO FIVE FURTHER YEARS IN
PRISON.

‘A LENGTHY PERIOD OF IMPRISONMENT IS IN MY VIEW
NECESSARY’HE SAID.

NELSON
ALSO PLEADED GUILTY TO THEFT, WHICH INVOLVED HIS TAKING CHEQUES
WHEN WORKING AS A POSTAL CLERK FOR THE PROPERTY OWNERS’ BUILDING
SOCIETY IN CAVENDISH PLACE,W1.

THE
JUDGE SENTENCED HIM TO A TOTAL OF 30 MONTHS YOUTH CUSTODY.

THE JUDGE
ADDED:” THIS WAS A TRAGIC WASTE OF A VERY PROMISING START IN LIFE.

”
THE COURT HEARD THE TWO
SECUROTY GUARDS SOON RECOVERED, ALTHOUGH MISS MORRIS IS VERY LUCKY NOT
TO HAVE BEEN BLINDED.

ENDS