A CONVICTED robber who smashed the window of a family home with a cricket bat during a 'mob-handed attack' and showered a child with broken glass will have to spend even longer in jail.

Tommy Lee Jauncey was jailed for six months at Worcester Crown Court yesterday following the attack in Diglis, Worcester. The 22-year-old, already serving a six year sentence for two city robberies, was convicted by a jury of affray, possession of an offensive weapon and theft of a numberplate following the attack in Mill Street on October 23, 2017. This sentence will be served on top of his jail term for two knife-point robberies committed with convicted killer Danny Martin. Jauncey's co-defendant, Scott Fewtrell, was also convicted of affray and possession of an offensive weapon following his part in the bat attack.

He admitted theft of the numberplate. Because the 27-year-old of Chedworth Drive, Warndon, Worcester, had already served a 16 month prison sentence for dangerous driving following a chase the day after the attack the judge suspended the six month sentence for 12 months, arguing that the driving had been 'part and parcel of all of this'. Convicted cannabis dealer Paul Taylor, the man whose home was attacked, believed both men meant to rob him. Recorder Benjamin Nicholls said: "He's seeking to suggest it was an attempted robbery. I think that's purely speculative. I put that out of my mind.

"The point is you both went around there mob-handed with a weapon, namely a cricket bat. When the door was slammed on you, you Tommy Lee Jauncey attacked the window with a cricket bat and it smashed. On the other side of the window was a a child who was showered in broken glass."

Fewtrell was handed a community order for 12 months to include 20 rehabilitation activity days and 120 hours of unpaid work.

The judge ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the cricket bat and knife thrown from a Fiat Punto during the police pursuit.