A WARRNAMBOOL uncle and nephew ice addicts who confronted a family member’s ex-boyfriend over a burglary have been jailed.
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Adam Troy Parker, 35, and Tyler Robert Parker, 19, of Bolden Avenue, pleaded guilty last week in the Warrnambool County Court to aggravated burglary and recklessly causing injury.
Yesterday, Adam Parker was sentenced to two years and nine months’ imprisonment. He has already served 229 days of an eight-month sentence for burglary and dishonesty offences.
He now has to serve another two years and three months before being eligible for parole.
Tyler Parker pleaded guilty to the attempted armed robbery of two 15-year-olds at football training, escaping from police and other minor offences. He was sentenced to serve 21 months in a youth justice centre, less the 185 days he’s already spent in custody.
The court heard that in early May the Parkers went to a Koroit Street unit to see the ex-boyfriend of a family member who had been the victim of a burglary.
They believed the former boyfriend was responsible for the theft of a dress, laptop, mobile phone and $3000 in cash.
Adam Parker spoke to the man, who told him the issue had been resolved.
The resident then rang police and Adam Parker punched him to the mouth and belted him with a piece of paling timber. Tyler Parker hit the victim to the side of the head several times.
Adam Parker then wrote out a note, which he told the victim to copy and sign. The note stated the man owed the female family member $3000 which he had taken due to “financial burden stupidity”.
After being arrested Adam Parker told police the victim tried to hit him with a pinch bar and he thought “you cheeky little bugger”.
Tyler Parker’s other offences involved the attempted armed robbery of two 15-year-old clubmates at footy training while on a four-day ice bender.
He pulled a knife, rushed at the two boys, demanded a mobile phone and wallet and twice threatened to kill them if they told anyone.
In a victim impact statement one of the boys said he couldn’t sleep for a week, had nightmares about getting stabbed and now turned up to footy training late so there were people around.
Judge Mark Taft described that crime as a “particularly low act and utterly shameful”.
He said the Parkers had decided to take the law into their own hands, noting that Adam Parker had previously appeared in court 11 times and served several jail terms.
“Your future prospects depend on you weaning yourself from the debilitating influence of illicit drugs,” he said.