Gang armed with knives and machetes tried to raid Kinson home

The aggravated burglary plan was orchestrated by Natalie Wild, who organised the enterprise which saw her four co-defendants attempt to gain entry to her father’s home in Kinson at night during the first Covid lockdown.

After failing to get in through the front door of the property in Mayfair Gardens, where Wild’s father was at home with his wife, Keon Green, who is Wild’s boyfriend, Tyler Shay Smith, Elyeas Amhed and Bradley Michael Green smashed the front window using their machetes and knives.

The couple managed to escape and go to a neighbour’s address before calling police, who sent firearms officers, a dog unit and dispatched a search helicopter.

The raiders, who were wearing balaclavas or other face coverings, were confronted by a neighbour before they ran off from the scene, however, three of them were soon detained in the area of South Kinson Drive.

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Smith was found hiding behind garden furniture at an address, Keon Green was caught hiding behind a tree by a block of flats and Ahmed was found hiding at the rear of a property by a police dog.

Bradley Green ended up in hospital after injuring his ankle. He was arrested when police went to Poole Hospital shortly before 5am the morning after the incident.

Judge Jonathan Fuller QC described the conspiracy, which came to a head on April 26, 2020, as a “serious criminal enterprise which could have had serious consequences”.

At the time of the incident the defendats were aged between 16 and 20.

Victim's fears

Prosecuting, Robert Griffiths told Bournemouth Crown Court that a victim personal statement from Wild’s father referenced his “utter terror” when the offenders shouted “I’m going to ******* kill you”.

Mayfair Gardens in Kinson

He said talking about the incident made him emotional, he was physically shaking while giving his statement and the fact his daughter was involved saddened him.

His wife had suffered more severely as a result of the incident and he now slept with a hammer under his pillow for protection, the statement said.

Bournemouth Crown Court heard five months before the incident took place in April 2020, Wild had received a disclosure from social services on her childhood, which involved being placed into care at the age of two.

Sentencing Judge Jonathan Fuller KC said the documents showed “considerable negligence” and other trauma.

Wild held her father responsible for her fractured childhood, mental health difficulties and other problems. She shared what she had learned with her boyfriend Keon Green and decided to organise the burglary on his home to try and get back at him.

Weeks before the incident, Wild set up a bogus Facebook profile pretending to be a woman to try to lure her father into a “compromising situation”, with a plan of disclosing this to his wife.

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Mitigation submissions

The defendants, who all live in Leicester, were sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Monday, October 31.

Wild, Smith, Ahmed and Keon Green pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary, while Bradley Green was found guilty following a trial.

Lucy Sweetland, representing Wild, said her client, who is pregnant with Keon Green’s child, had mental disorders and developmental disorders, as well as post-traumatic stress disorder from experiences in her childhood.

Ms Sweetland said Wild was a young vulnerable woman who had never shown any signs of committing an offence of this nature.

Tyler Smith, 19 and of Leicester (Image: Dorset Police)

Tom Evans, representing Smith, said his client, who had diagnosed schizophrenia, was genuinely remorseful.

Mr Evans said Smith could be rehabilitated in the community through a suspended sentence.

Victoria Mead, representing Bradley Green, said her client had a “demonstrable work ethic” having been employed right up until when he went on trial. She said he was immature for his age but he had been a devoted father since the birth of his daughter.

Nick Robinson, representing Keon Green, said his client, who wanted to apologise to the victims, witnessed domestic violence in his childhood, which affected him significantly.

When discussing the incident with his barrister, Mr Robinson said Keon Green told him: “It was the most stupid thing I have ever done in my life. I regret it all”.

Robert Grey, representing Ahmed, said his client had difficulties in his upbringing and he had special educational needs.

Mr Grey said Ahmed was not an instigator for what took place, with him being recruited “very shortly before” the males made the taxi journey down to Bournemouth.

Complex sentencing exercise

Judge Fuller KC jailed the four male defendants, while Wild received a suspended sentence.

Bournemouth Crown Court heard Wild’s father and his wife were at home on the evening of April Wild and Keon Green were determined to have had significant role in the conspiracy, which had the highest category of harm in the sentencing guidelines.

Judge Fuller KC reduced all the sentences from the starting points set in the guidelines due to the burglary being incomplete, the age and/or immaturity of the defendants and the unexplained delay in the case going to court, as well as for the guilty pleas entered by all of the offenders apart from Bradley Green.

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Keon Green, aged 19, was sentenced to two years’ detention in a young offenders’ institution, Smith, aged 19, to 20 months’ detention, Ahmed, aged 20, to 17 months’ detention and Bradley Green, aged 22, to three years’ imprisonment.

Wild, aged 20, received two years’ detention, suspended for two years, with a requirement to carry out 40 days of rehabilitation activity.

The judge said there was exceptional material, which made difficult reading for anybody, in Wild’s case which allowed him to suspend the sentence.

In relation to Keon Green, Smith and Ahmed, he said there were no such grounds to justify suspension to outweigh the seriousness of the offence.

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