A MAN has been jailed for almost four years for an attempted robbery in Bedworth.
At around 7.45pm on June 13, David Burke, age 46 of no fixed abode, attempted to take a woman’s handbag by force.
The victim was walking through an alleyway near Church Way in Bedworth when Burke approached from behind and grabbed her handbag.
He shouted at her, ordering her to give him her purse, but the victim, whose handbag was strapped across her body to prevent it from being taken, said she didn’t have a purse on her.
Burke shouted at her, saying: “You’re ******* lying, everyone has a purse, you don’t want to ******* annoy me.”
Burke, in his efforts to take the handbag, then pushed her into a bush, but the victim distracted him by saying a relative was nearby, and then ran away to where the relative was waiting in a car.
After the victim identified Burke, who attempted to escape, the relative caught up with him and detained him until police arrived to arrest him.
Burke was sentenced at Warwick Crown Court to three years and nine months in prison.
PC Lewis said: “Burke tried to take someone’s property by force, someone who must have appeared as an easy target.
“He threatened her, pushed her over, and paused only when it was made apparent there was someone else nearby to look out for her.
“We’d like to say a huge thank you to the efforts of her relative in resolving this incident.
“We are satisfied that Burke has got nearly four years to mull over the bad decisions that led to him staring at a cell wall.”
