Two males who took part in violent carjacking robberies in Bradford have been given sentences totalling 18 and a half years.
Waqas Hussain, 20, was given 12 years after he was found guilty on five counts as well as possession of a firearm, while a 15-year-old boy from Bradford, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was jailed for six and a half years at Bradford Crown Court yesterday, 20 July.
Among the offences Hussain was sentenced for was a robbery in St Matthew’s Grove in Wilsden last October, where a man in his forties was dragged from his Volkswagen Golf R and tasered by a group of men, and one on Halifax Road in November, where a lone female with a baby was threatened with a firearm before a VW Polo was taken. The vehicle was later recovered.
Hussain was also found guilty of an offence in The Grove, in Idle, last November, where he and his teenage accomplice robbed a man in his forties, who was struck with a pick axe and dragged from his car.
The teenager was also found guilty of three attempted robberies, dangerous driving and a make off without payment offence.
Hussain, of Fearnsides Terrace in Girlington, was not present in court for the sentencing after absconding during the trial. Enquiries are continuing today to locate him.
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