A vulnerable mum was left terrified in her own home when an armed gang burst in demanded money from her teenage son.
The woman, who has a hearing impairment and relies on lipreading, had just returned from the shop when she was suddenly confronted by three men in her home, one armed with a claw hammer. A court heard they stole jewellery from her son after ransacking his room and made threats.
The aggravated burglary happened at a ground floor flat on Landsdowne Road, Forest Hall, North Tyneside, around 8pm on December 30 last year, where the woman lives with her 18-year-old son. Now Lewis Knowles and Dominic McDonald have each been jailed for seven years.
