JUST DESERTS
ARMED MIDDLESBROUGH WOMEN ROB SHOPKEEPER AND HOLD KNIFE TO CABBIE’S THROAT
Two robbers, Christina Youll, 46, and Joanne Baillie, 42, showed no mercy as they
ignored a
frightened shopkeeper’s pleas not to rob the shop he worked in. Hours later, one of them held a knife to a cabbie’s throat, as the other punched him in the face and emptied his pockets. On 15 April, the two women appeared at Teesside Crown Court to be sentenced. Baillie was also charged with two counts of assaulting an emergency worker. The court heard that in February, Baillie teamed up with pal Christina Youll to carry out two robberies, whilst they were high on class A drugs. Just before 10pm on February 20, Youll smashed the window of a shop in Hemlington with a brick, and demanded money from the assistant. Youll
did not feel he could drive off” as the male remained in his car, ”Victoria Lamballe, prosecuting, told the court. They were driven to an address in Norton and then back
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was behind the till, the victim could see she had a large kitchen knife. Baillie held a smaller knife. Youll took alcohol and cigarettes. Hours later the two called a taxi to pick them up from an address in Hemlington and along with another man asked to be taken to Asda, on Portrack Lane. The man stayed in the taxi as the women went into the shop. But when the taxi driver saw them arguing with a security guard, “he
FINE FOR SURREY PCSO GUILTY OF ASSAULTING CABBIE IN REDHILL
A Police Community Support Officer in Surrey has pleaded guilty to assaulting a cabbie. PCSO Danielle Carter, 39, pleaded guilty to assault by beating at Staines Magistrates’ Court on 28 March. The officer, who was off duty at the time of the incident, was out in Redhill in May 2023 when police received a call from a taxi driver just after midnight. The driver reported a concern for Carter’s safety after he drove her to an address in Grantwood Close. The driver also alleged that Carter had assaulted him and damaged the inside of his taxi.
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She was arrested and sub- sequently charged with assault by beating and criminal damage. She was ordered to pay a £1,050 fine following her guilty plea for the assault. The court decided not to pursue a separate conviction for the criminal damage. Head of Surrey Police’s Pro- fessional Standards, Super- intendent Andy Rundle, said: “Now the court case has concluded, we will be taking disciplinary action against Carter which will determine whether she has breached the policing standards of professional behaviour.”
Hemlington. But when the women asked the driver to let them out further up the street, he became suspicious and refused. “Youll leaned forward, held a kitchen knife to his throat, ordering him ‘to give me all your money’.” The court heard that the driver told her to take all she wanted, and pleaded with her not to hurt him, as he had a family. Baillie punched the driver repeatedly to his face, before taking his iPhone, car keys and cash from his pockets.
Ms Lamballe said that the man’s phone and keys were later found in a bush. The taxi driver said he was “physically sick” with fear. The two were arrested hours later. but Baillie told officers: “You’re not f****** taking me like” before biting one officer on the hand. Youll, from Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery, and two counts of posses- sion of a knife. She has 28 previous convictions for 48
offences
including attacking a man at a party, before stamping on him as he lay bleeding on the ground. Baillie, from Middlesbrough, ad- mitted robbery and possession of the knife, plus assaulting an emer- gency worker. She has 38 previous convictions for 88 offences including a previous robbery. Judge Chris Smith jailed Youll for five years, two months; and Baillie for five years, four months.
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