A scheming couple set up a friend who was viciously robbed at a cash machine and left blinded in one eye, a court has heard.
Junior Johnson and Karla Docherty tipped off a third party that Russell Pipe would be collecting hundreds of pounds in benefits money for himself and Docherty’s mother from an ATM. Mr Pipe was subsequently brutally assaulted in Newport’s Marshfield Street during the early hours of February 12 last year after withdrawing £500 in cash.
Prosecutor Joshua Scouller told Newport Crown Court that an "arrangement" had been reached between the defendants and a third party to steal money from Mr Pipe and that, during the course of the theft, "quite significant injury" was caused to their victim though that was not something attributable to the defendants.
