FIVE men have been sentenced to a total of 39 years in jail after threatening a family at gunpoint.
Woolwich Crown Court heard a group of men broke into a house in Forest Hill in June last year where a married couple and their two daughters, aged 15 and 12, were sleeping.
One of the men put a gun to the head of the 43-year-old father and demanded cash.
They took the family’s new Mercedes car worth £45,000, a plasma TV, two mobile phones, two iPhones, two laptops, two computer game consoles and an iPod.
Trevor Cooke, aged 21, from Brixton, Ogarra Dixon, aged 18, from Brixton, and 23-year-old Reggie Junior Fowell-Boston, from Warwickshire, were charged with robbery, possessing an imitation firearm and theft of a motor vehicle.
All three were found guilty.
Fowell-Boston was sentenced to 10 years while Cooke and Dixon were both sentenced to eight years in prison.
Two 21-year-olds from Brixton, Myles Maccalla and Sharando Cadette, pleaded guilty to the offences.
Both were sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail.
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