On tomorrow's front page: Masked raiders ‘threatened to knife’ Olympic cyclist Mark Cavendish in front of his kids in £700K robbery
She thought her son Finnbar, 16, had got up and knocked something over.
“Mr Cavendish tried to find the panic alarm. As he did so, two of the assailants pounced on him and started punching him, demanding that he turn off the alarm.“Mrs Cavendish was understandably looking after her three-year-old child, keeping him under the duvet to stop him from seeing what was going on.”on her mobile, but one intruder noticed and threatened her with a knife.
They found a small safe and ordered Mark to open it, but he was unable to because its batteries were dead. He was then “subjected to more violence”, the court heard. Mark had managed to trigger the panic alarm. But by the time the private security company showed up the raiders had fled — using two getaway cars, the court heard.Mr Renvoize said: “The misplacement of that phone was quite an error.” Forensic officers foundJurors also heard phone records show mobiles belonging to Henry and Okorosobo were close to the house that night.The home had been raided a year earlier and many of the couple’s belongings had already been stolen.
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