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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
National
Rebecca Sherdley

Man with autism 'cried himself to sleep' after terrifying robbery and turned flat into 'Fort Knox'

The victim of a terrifying robbery, where he was threatened with a fork and a ballpoint pen, allowed his aggressors to take his PlayStation - saying "it was not worth dying over".

Nottingham Crown Court was told how the man, who lived alone, was the victim of the raid at the hands of two men who lived in a flat nearby.

One was Lee Thompson, 26, who wrongly believed that his neighbour, who had a form of autism, had his bank card and it had been delivered by mistake to his home.

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