A burglar armed with a claw hammer who burst right into a disabled man’s house within the early hours received greater than he bargained for, after the sharp-witted resident grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the intruder within the chest.
Shamas Malik, 22, from Hull was left with blood pouring from his wound and fled the scene shortly after being stabbed, solely to be picked up by police shortly after.
The authorities have been known as by the disabled man after he heard “banging and crashing” from Malik and his cronies making an attempt to enter his property.
The sufferer was in “terror” and feared he was going to die throughout the “dreadful” incident in his house. Nonetheless scared he was, the occupier was pondering clearly sufficient to seize the knife.
In an ironic twist, armed burglar Malik was a legislation, sociology and criminology scholar with stellar references. The choose informed the younger man he had “chosen to throw away” his future by the intentionally focused housebreaking.
Malik of Park Grove, Princes Avenue, Hull, admitted the aggravated housebreaking on August 6.
Prosecutor Alasdair Campbell mentioned that Malik and others raided the home in Kirk Ella, on the outskirts of Kingston upon Hull, at round 3:15am.
The 49-year-old sufferer had poor mobility after a stroke and had no use of his left arm.
The person heard the raiders making an attempt to realize entry to his house and heard somebody shout: “Open the door”.
The burglars tried to kick within the door, earlier than Malik climbed a ladder by an open window on the primary flooring.
The intruder was carrying a balaclava and was wielding a claw hammer.
Malik went downstairs and got here face-to-face with the resident. The burglar struck the person with the hammer a number of occasions on the chest and higher arms earlier than the resident stabbed him within the chest.
The police arrived on the scene not lengthy after that. A person, not Malik, was apprehended in a automobile not removed from the house. Two different males, each out of breath, have been additionally discovered on a path.
The others had not but been charged by the police as a result of they have been ready for forensic proof. A baseball bat was discovered.
Malik had suffered a severe chest wound and was bleeding. He was taken to hospital.
Mr Campbell mentioned: “The police didn’t know at that stage the complete extent of what had occurred.
“This was clearly a focused assault by quite a lot of people on the property of a susceptible particular person. This defendant got here armed and outfitted for housebreaking. He was a part of a bunch. He had a face protecting.”
The householder was mentioned to have suffered no lasting accidents.
Fuad Arshad, mitigating, mentioned that nothing was stolen throughout the raid.
He informed Hull Crown Court docket: “This was a housebreaking that they’d meant to undertake that night.
“That was the complete purpose of what they have been as much as within the early hours.”
The court docket heard that Malik didn’t have any data of the person’s bodily situation earlier than the housebreaking.
He mentioned: “The offending would seem like very a lot out of character.”
Choose Mark Bury informed Malik that it might have been clear to him that the resident was disabled and susceptible.
He added that had the resident not grabbed a knife the housebreaking would have been profitable.
“That, and that alone, brought about you to depart with out stealing something. The police had already been known as and so they arrived shortly afterwards.
“You have been bleeding due to a stab wound, which you tried to cross off as an accident.”
The court docket heard that docs on the hospital treating Malik heard that he had been stabbed.
Choose Bury added: “I do not know why you may have chosen to throw away your future by committing this dreadful offence.”
Malik, who was in custody on remand, was jailed for eight years and 7 months.