The cruel crimes of a pair of despicable robbers were discovered when their vulnerable victim tried to jump off a motorway bridge.
Claire Brennan and Brian Elliott drove the man to the brink of suicide after leaving him with no money to feed himself or pay bills. But, after being talked down by police, he opened up about how they had routinely been marching him to a cash machine once every two weeks and forcing him to hand over his benefit money on the day it was paid.
Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday, Wednesday, that the pair subjected James Farrell 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".
