Two cruel robbers marched a vulnerable man to a cash machine every two weeks and forced him to empty his bank account.
James Farrell was left on the brink of suicide after being subjected to months of intimidation by Claire Brennan and Brian Elliott. They routinely targeted him on the day on which they knew he received his benefits, leaving him with no money to feed himself.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Wednesday, that the pair subjected him to a "programme of intimidation and robbery". Arthur Gibson, prosecuting, described how Elliott and Brennan - both of Devonshire Road in Oxton, Wirral - would call at his flat fortnightly on the date his benefits were paid then "frog march" him to an ATM and "withdraw all his money".
