Two masked thugs who broke into household houses in Lanarkshire and Lothian and kidnapped two younger women have been hit with prolonged jail sentences.
Patrick Mooney, 41, and Patrick Keenan, 23, had been jailed for a complete of 19 years on the Excessive Courtroom in Paisley this week for the break-ins at properties in Chryston in North Lanarkshire and East Calder in West Lothian.
The pair had each pleaded responsible to costs of abduction, assault and theft throughout an earlier listening to on the Excessive Courtroom in Glasgow.
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Their pleas adopted two incidents in Chryston and East Calder inside 5 days final 12 months after they carried out the assaults carrying balaclavas.
Each houses had been particularly focused by the thugs.
They made off with £5000 in money and threatened to “kill” a member of the household in Chryston throughout a daunting ordeal on February 18, 2021. after they shaped a part of a mob who stormed in and smashed patio doorways earlier than assaulting the home’s occupants.
5 days earlier on February 13 they'd damaged right into a flat in East Calder, armed with a spade they confronted two younger women aged eight and 12 and ordered them right into a bed room, warning them to: “Comply and we won't damage you”.
They then made off with £2300 in money.
Mooney was sentenced to 10 years and his confederate Keenan was given 9 years.
DI Kevin Tait mentioned of the incidents: “Abduction and robberies inside somebody’s residence are very intrusive crimes.
"Patrick Mooney and Patrick Keenan focused their victims, deliberate their assaults and had no regard for the influence that these crimes have on the sufferer and their households.
“We carried out in depth investigations with our colleagues from throughout the nation to make sure these two males had been apprehended.
“Fortunately crimes of this violent nature will not be a typical incidence and this was an ideal instance of the constructive relationship we now have with the general public who supplied essential info which assisted our enquiries.
"Hopefully they are going to take consolation from this sentencing at this time.”
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