A SUTTON YOUTH ALREADY SERVING A FIVE YEAR SENTEN

A SUTTON YOUTH ALREADY SERVING A FIVE YEAR SENTENCE FOR
MANSLAUGHTER WAS GIVEN TWO MORE YEARS AT THE OLD BAILEY ON FRIDAY FOR
STABBING AN ‘INNOCENT’ TESCO WORKER.

‘I GOT THE WRONG BLOKE’, TREVOR LANE, 20, TOLD POLICE WHEN THE
MATTER CAME TO LIGHT SIX MONTHS LATER.

LANE PLUNGED A KNIFE INTO SALES ASSISTANT RONALD VYE WHEN HE
TURNED AWAY FROM THE FISH COUNTER IN THE SUTTON TESCO STORE ON
SEPTEMBER 29, 1984.

‘LANE SAID HE WAS TAKING VENGENCE ON A MAN HE BELIEVED HAD
ATTACKED HIS MATE’, SAID MR SIMON SMITH, PROSECUTING.

‘HE STABBED
SOMEONE HE DID NOT KNOW WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM.

‘
MR VYE’S WOUND IN HIS LOIN WAS THREE INCHES DEEP AND REQUIRED
AN OPERATION.

HE SPENT FIVE DAYS IN HOSPITAL.

LANE, FORMERLY OF MORGAN WAY, SUTTON, IS CURRENTLY SERVING A
FIVE YEAR SENTENCE FOR MANSLAUGHTER.

HE WAS FOUND GUILTY BY AN OLD
BAILEY JURY ON JANUARY 30, THIS YEAR.

THE JURY ACQUITTED HIM OF
MURDER.

ON FRIDAY HE PLEADED GUILTY TO WOUNDINGMR VYE WITH INTENT TO
CAUSE HIM GREVIOUS BODILY HARM.

JUDGE ROBERT LYMBERY, QC, CALLED THE ATTACK A ‘COLD BLOODED,
PREMEDITATED ACT OF VENGENCE ON AN ENTIRELY INNOCENT YOUNG MAN’.

AND HE SAID THE TWO YEAR SENTENCED IS TO BE SERVED CONSECUTIVE
TO THE MANSLAUGHTER SENTENCE.

THE JUDGE ADDED: ‘HAPPILY NO GRAVE INJURY WAS DONE.

BUT
DOCTORS SAY IN A DIFFERENT PART OF THE BODY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH
MORE SERIOUS – AND PERHAPS FATAL.

‘

ENDS.

NOTE: THE OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE CASE HAD NO PAPERS ON THIS PLEA OR
ON THE MURDER.

HE ONLY HAD PAPERS ON ANOTHER CHARGE THAT WAS LEFT ON
THE FILE.

THEREFORE WE DO NOT HAVE THE AGE OF THE VICTIM OR THE NAME
OF THE VICTIM IN THE MURDER CASE.

ENDS NOTE.