Two men bound an 18-year-old woman with gaffer tape and used a fireplace poker to \"knock her out\" while they robbed her home.<\/p>\n
Her mother then returned to the property before the men also caught her and tied her up.<\/p>\n
On September 3 robbers Paul Jones, 53, and Jay Davies, 37, had gotten into the house in St Johns Street, Duxford.<\/p>\n
Their teenage victim was in the house at the time and immediately texted her boyfriend to say she thought there was someone in the house.<\/p>\n
The two men discovered her and, after a brief scuffle as she tried to escape, managed to hold her down and bind her with gaffer tape and computer cables.<\/p>\n
She was still making noise so one of the men said to the other knock her out, and he hit her multiple times in the head with a fire poker.<\/p>\n
When she regained consciousness, she found she had been tied to a chair in the kitchen and had a towel over her head.<\/p>\n
However, she could still see the men; one was eating a banana and the other going through the freezer looking for ice cream.<\/p>\n
At this point a car pulled up in the driveway; the victims boyfriend had called her mum who had returned home.<\/p>\n
As she came into the house the two men pinned her down and tied her up next to her daughter in the kitchen using telephone cables.<\/p>\n
One of the men began reciting a lengthy prayer asking for Gods forgiveness and to have mercy on me for I am a sinner.<\/p>\n
A short while later the house went quiet and the victims managed to free themselves from their bindings.<\/p>\n
The robbers had left the house, taking with them the victims car, handbag and cash.<\/p>\n
Officers attended and a short while later managed to recover the car, which had been abandoned still containing a handbag and a tobacco pouch which belonged to the suspects.<\/p>\n
Scenes of Crime Officers took chemical fingerprints and sent them for urgent analysis. The results showed a successful DNA match for Davies.<\/p>\n
Police officers tracked him to an address in Kentish Town, London, where they arrested him on September 7.<\/p>\n
While at the address Paul Jones was also found in one of the bedrooms, where he admitted to being wanted and on the run - he was arrested.<\/p>\n
Jay Davies, of Ilford, east London, pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and two counts of causing actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n
Paul Jones, of no fixed abode, was found guilty of two counts of robbery and two counts of causing actual bodily harm at trial earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Jones was handed a 21-year prison sentence and Davies received 12 years at Peterborough Crown Court last Thursday (March 19).<\/p>\n
DC Ciaron Hickey said: This was a terrifying ordeal for the victims, I cant begin to imagine how frightened they must have been while they were tied up.<\/p>\n
Your own home should be the one place you feel completely safe and Jones and Davies have ruined that for the victims. I hope this sentence will allow them some peace of mind and let them return to normality.<\/p>\n
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