Two armed intruders wearing their dressing gowns turned up at the hostel home of a teenager who they had a connection with through drugs, a court heard. Former CPS worker Suzana Palmer and her boyfriend, Luke Chapman, were captured on "disturbing" CCTV going into the victim's home in the dead of night.
Chapman forced his way in with a wrench, followed by Palmer, with a baseball bat, on May 31, 2021. They struck in Brand Lane, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Chapman, wearing a grey gown, assaulted the resident as he went to the front door. Palmer, in her fluffy pink hooded dressing gown, disappeared upstairs.
The victim went through into the kitchen but then, with a knife in his hand, managed to chase Chapman. There was a struggle between the pair in the living room. A hooded Palmer appeared, after helping herself to the victim's rucksack and coat, and hit the victim, who was 17 years old, at least 29 times with the wooden bat.
