14 years for robber who was stabbed by victim
By Sue Clough, Courts Correspondent
Daily Telegraph 19/06/2001
AN armed robber seriously injured with his own knife when his victim fought back was jailed for 14 years at the Old Bailey yesterday after a judge told him that he deserved no sympathy.
Victor Hanchard, 40, was on the run from prison when he and two accomplices broke into the home of Andrew Achilleos and his wife Danuta at Eltham, south London, in July last year. The masked raiders threatened the couple but Mr Achilleos, 46, grabbed Hanchard's knife and stabbed him.
The gang fled with £9,000 of jewellery but Hanchard was traced while pleading for help at a nearby house. He was so severely injured that he needed intensive care treatment. Hanchard, of Lewisham, south London, had denied robbery and false imprisonment.
Judge Stephen Robbins said: "Violent criminals like you who end up having the very weapon you were wielding turned on you by terrified householders deserve little sympathy. You were the author of your own misfortune."
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