Robbin Ratbags

Nikki Edmunds, is a 32 year old petty thug and burglar  ....

Robbin Ratbags

... whilst on a 24 hour crime spree with his girlfriend, he broke in to a house and threatened the householder with a 10-inch meat cleaver. 

However the householder, Sam Rose, was actually his cousin and recognised him, exclaiming "Wow, Nik. Its me". .... at this point the thieving git, realised who it was and said "Fuck its you" and ran out of the house. If you read this blog regularly you won't be surprised that this happened in Monmouthshire South Wales. 

Mr Edmunds, who had racked up 21 previous offences before this event, including affray, assaulting an emergency worker, and wounding, but was still out on the streets. He had apparently not learnt much from whatever penalties those previous offences had resulted in, because this meat cleaver incident ended a 24 hour stint of criminal activities, involving stolen cars, police chases, running people off the road and weapon offences.

It all started on the morning of December 3rd 2019 when Mr Edmunds found a Vauxhall Corsa car running outside a neighbours house and tried to steal it  ... the owner and his father, managed to block Edmunds path, but he simply reversed the car into another vehicle to get away, badly damaging that one too.

Two hours later, officers spotted the stolen Corsa, after their automatic number plate recognition system showed the number plates were false. A police pursuit then ensued after Edmunds refused to pull over, and during this pursuit Edmunds was speeding and even drove on the wrong side of the road as he overtook five cars in a bid to get away. Eventually and inevitably, he collided with another car, a Vauxhall Zafira, driven by a mother with two children in the car, shunting the vehicle up on to a grass bank.

He escaped, but the following day he was spotted again by the cars owners ... and Edmunds hit the front of their car, and then grabbed the driver and pulled him out. He was carrying both a metal bar and a meat cleaver, which he used to strike the driver. The driver and his passenger managed to get away in their car, despite Edmunds girlfriend Kerry Jones trying to block their escape, as Edmunds shouted that he was going to kill them.

It was just 20 minutes later that he was trying the rob his own cousin ... Police finally arrested him in Pontllanfraith. In court Edmunds, admitted dangerous driving, affray, possessing a bladed article and offensive weapon, criminal damage, and attempted robbery. While Kerry Jones, who had accompanied her boyfriend through a lot of this mayhem, and who herself had 14 previous offences, including aggravated vehicle taking, admitted allowing herself to be carried in a vehicle taken without the owner’s consent, and a public order offence.

Needless to say, they both claimed a litany of excuses for their criminal activities. Edmunds was said to have mental health problems and that he used alcohol as a “coping mechanism”, while Jones also claimed to have misused alcohol following an abusive relationship. Edmunds was jailed for four years and eight months, and laughingly disqualified from driving for two years (so he can drive when he gets out in two years on parole?). Jones was jailed for six months and also disqualified from driving for 12 months.   

South Wales is of course not the only place to have all thick thieves ... South London can manage it as well. A bunch of wannabee bank robbers stormed in to the New Addington branch of Lloyds Bank ...

Not Exactly The Biggest Bank Branch ..... Sort Of A Clue Unless Your Clueless!

.... only to find it was a cash free branch with no tellers, just staff with tablet PC's .... the only cash was in the ATM machines which were serviced outside. 

After standing looking around in a bemused manner, the robbers ran back outside and escaped before police could arrive at the scene. The police branded the gang of thieves the "thickest robbers in the country" .... Nikki Edmunds and Kerry Jones wouldn't agree with that.