A prolific thief who stole from an aged and frail girls had boiling water poured over him in jail as he awaited being sentenced for his newest crime.
Dean Kenyon is now “in fixed and searing ache” after the horrific assault, in line with studies. The assault occurred whereas he was remanded in custody for a theft on January 12, which left his 79-year-old sufferer with lifelong accidents.
The 35-year-old grabbed the girl’s purse, inflicting her to fall backwards and fracture her hip, a courtroom heard.
Whereas in jail he had boiling water poured on his legs and arms, leading to him having 5 pores and skin graft operations, in line with Teesside Reside.
In October 2020, he barged an arthritic girls into a store window earlier than grabbing her purse, as she walked alongside Bowesfield Lane in Stockton. He approached her from behind and pushed her into the window of a barber’s store earlier than snatching her purse,
Her financial institution playing cards have been later recovered from Kenyon however treasured pictures of her mother and father have been by no means discovered. The lady was left traumatised by the assault and too afraid to depart her residence.
At that time, he was residing in Stockton’s Hartington Highway and had 13 earlier convictions primarily for acquisitive crime. He was jailed for 3 years and 4 weeks.
On Friday, Kenyon, of Parkside Crescent, Seaham, appeared at Durham Crown Courtroom courtroom through hyperlink from HMP Durham, to be sentenced for theft. He had pleaded responsible to the cost at a earlier listening to.
Chris Morrison, defending, stated: “The extent of regret on this matter is clear. When the sober realisation of what he had executed to that susceptible girl dawned upon him, he was mortified, and is mortified to this present day.”
He stated that Kenyon had carried out the theft as a way to “purchase cash for medication” and stated he had been the sufferer of an assault whereas on remand. He stated: “He had boiling water poured over his legs and arms, leading to pores and skin grafts to his legs and arms.
“He has had 5 pores and skin graft operations and his mobility is to be affected by these. He's presently closely sedated and is in fixed and searing ache.”
Sentencing Kenyon, Decide James Adkin, the Recorder of Durham, handed him a six-year jail sentence, with a three-year prolonged licence.
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