15 year jail term for man who committed aggravated burglary of two people in their 70s

A 32-year-old man has been jailed for more than 10 years in connection with an aggravated burglary in Bury St Edmunds during the summer of 2018, where the two victims were both aged in their 70s.

Jordan Carr, pictured above, appeared before Ipswich Crown Court on Thursday, February 17, where he was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment, with an extended licence period of four years.

Carr had initially denied the charge of aggravated burglary but changed his plea to guilty on the fifth day of a trial in December last year.

The incident in question took place in Norman Road shortly before 11pm, on Saturday, August 11, 2018, where the victims – a man and a woman – were watching television in separate rooms of a bungalow.

The male victim was sitting in the kitchen when two men came in through the back door, both wearing balaclavas.

The victim stood up and one of the men held a knife to his chin and told him to sit down and stay put. This man then began searching the kitchen drawers and at one point the victim tried to get up and grab something to defend himself, at which point he was pushed to the floor by the man in the kitchen.

Meanwhile, the other suspect had gone into the hallway and cut the phone line and then confronted the second victim who was in a bedroom.

He held a knife towards her and demanded that she gave him money. He then spotted she was wearing a number of rings and ordered them to take them off or he would cut her fingers off. Once she handed over the rings, he then pushed her down on to the bed and left the room, emptying the contents of her handbag as he went.

The two suspects then left the bungalow and, after the victims checked on each other, the man went to a neighbour’s house to call the police.

The following morning, police attended an address in Lancaster Avenue where they arrested Carr, along with another man and a woman.

Carr was in possession of a rucksack, which was found to contain boxes of cigarettes and pouches of tobacco which were identified as belonging to the male victim, whose wedding ring was also found stuffed down the side of a sofa.

A 46-year-old man, who had also been charged in connection with the incident, was found not guilty following a trial in December last year.

The court heard that Carr is currently serving a five-year prison term for robbery, which he was sentenced for in September 2020. The latest sentence will run consecutively to the previous one.