On March 3, 2020, a man in his 30s walked with his Bulldog British puppy place in yesteryear when he noticed two men looking at him from a White Mercedes.
The dog walker escaped when the men left the car, one of them wielding something brilliant that looked like a knife, but the men reached him and threatened him before driving with the place.
Later, Spot was found wandering down a street in Harlow, Essex, on his own and was returned to his relatively unharmed owner, although traumatized.
Francis Zeta, 38, or Muir Road in Hackney, was arrested two later after being identified as the owner of the Mercedes, but told the police to a man who seemed to have tasks of his car and committed this dognapping.
On Monday, April 7, Zeta finally declared himself guilty of theft: the second man has never been identified.
At a sentence hearing on Friday, a judge of the Croydon Crown Crown decided not to send to prison due to his poor health.
‘Detame and I’ll do it to you’
Explaining the facts, prosecutor James Onalaja said: “On the morning of March 3, 2020, [the dog owner] He was in Lullingstone Crescent walking through the puppy that he and his family had bought a few days before for £ 1,500 when he saw a white Mercedes parked with two black men inside who appeared to look at him. ”
Later, the police would discover that Zeta’s car was taken from Hackney to Orpington in the early hours of the morning and then “went to bed” in the location of the theft of 3 am to 8.30 am
The dog owner continued his walk with the place until he saw the same car again parked in Wesley Road.
“This time, the passenger was out of the vehicle and was in the trunk to recover a brilliant article. The plaintiff panic, believing that he was about to be attacked, so he began fleeing with the puppy,” Onalaja said.
But Zeta, driving the car, reached it and snatched the puppy while saying “Detame and I will.”
Fearing that it was stabbed, the dog owner was forced to see men go out with the place.
‘I thought Spot was gone and everything was my fault’
After the owner of the robbery hastened home and begged driving through the area to try to find the Mercedes Blanco.
He managed to find the vehicle and eliminate his registration number before he hears losing his track, according to the court.
Later, Zeta was arrested by the direction of her partner with the same distinctive jacket she had during the robbery.
Mr. Onalaja said: “The dog was returned to the family the next day. The dog was traumatized as a team and had some scratches in the leg, but otherwise it was unharmed.”
In a victim’s impact statement, the dog owner said he was too scared to get out of the house for a while after theft.
He said: “Now, five years after what happened, I can leave the house, but not on your way. My partner sometimes assumes the place to walk, but she is also afraid, so he does not walk like him or how he could have done it, fortunately we have a garden.
“It has affected me a lot. I see groups of men and I have a feeling of panic. I still have nightmares on which they happened. About six months ago I woke up and thought it was gone and it was my fault.
“I don’t think Spot is the same again. I think he was mentally affected, since people do not like people with face cover or black container bags.”
He has also not attended the Court without explanation and continued to deny the position until the first day of his trial on Monday.
Until then he had affirmed that a similar aspect had tasks of his car without his consent.
When Zeta declared himself guilty, he did it on the grounds that there was no knife and his threat had been of physical violence instead of stabbing.
The victim said: “I thought this would never end and that there would be no justice. I felt that the suspect was playing the system, since every time I had to reach the court, they told me that I was in the hospital.”
Defending Zeta, Jonathan Woodcock said: “It has to be punished for this, but it is one that is very, very sick.”
Judge Antony Dunne, sentence, said: “He suffers a very serious medical condition. I have the reports, they say that his illness has deteriorated in the last 10 years. The disease is progressive and I am the prognosis for you.”
He added: “I have also read your letter and I recognize that you are a challenge and now you face what you did five years ago.”
The judge explained that this crime would normally lead to a sentence of imprisonment, but had decided to suspend the sentence that Balkus meant that the prison would have a significantly more serious impact on his than a healthy person.
He added that when Zeta now walks with a frame, he felt sure that he would not offend again.
