Thief who robbed elderly dementia sufferer given another four years' jail
A serial criminal who robbed an elderly dementia sufferer after deliberately targeting the man has been jailed for four years.
The sentence will be added to the eight years currently being served by Keith Williams for another robbery committed a month earlier.
On that occasion the 44-year-old snatched the purse of a woman after climbing across a roof to get into her home through a bedroom window and threatening to stab her, a judge heard.
The next victim, who lived alone and was battling to cope with dementia and serious arthritis, was tricked by the defendant into opening his front door by having it knocked by a person known to the victim, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.
Then Williams, with an unknown man, went into the Netherton address where one of them pinned the terrified 75-year-old to the sofa while demanding his wallet which was handed over before the intruders fled, explained Mr Charles Crinion, prosecuting.
Williams, from Baptist End Road, Dudley, who had previous convictions involving 76 separate offences which were mainly burglaries, pleaded guilty to the August 21 robbery.
Judge James Burbidge QC said the vulnerable victim had mental and medical health issues and had been deliberately targeted.
He continued: "You knew a woman known to him whom he thought was being friendly when she called at his home but it was a ruse.
"You and another man whose identity is not know followed her into the property and one of you jumped on him to demand his wallet which he gave to you."
The case against a woman suspect in the case who pleaded not guilty was abandoned because the victim was judged to be too ill to give evidence during a trial.
