Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District
Woman who acted as getaway driver jailed for 2 years
Exclusive Rest of the gang who took part in robbery have not been caught
A young woman who acted as a getaway driver in a jewellery raid broke down in court as she was jailed for two years.
Tanya Page, 24, waited in a car as a gang of thieves ransacked the home of 71-year-old Primrose Stanford in Molash.
However, as they fled with £400 worth of jewellery, the eagle-eyed pensioner saw Page at the wheel and managed to write down part of the car’s registration number.
Page, from East Malling, was arrested after the vehicle’s route was tracked using specialist computer cameras.
She denied her part in the raid last April but was convicted by a jury at Canterbury Crown Court.
The rest of the gang have never been traced.
Judge Adele Williams told Page: “You were convicted on clear and compelling evidence that you took part in this serious burglary.
“You were the driver of a car you had hired two weeks previously.
“You took the others to the scene of this break-in and it was you who was seen by your 71-year-old victim.”
Ms Stanford had revealed in a victim impact statement that she had been subjected to previous break-ins at the house, which had been her home for 45 years.
Judge Williams said: “This house was, in my opinion, deliberately targeted because it is detached and isolated.
“When your victim returned home she found you sitting in your car in her driveway.
“She later discovered the back door had been smashed, causing £600 worth of damage.
“There had also been an untidy search of the house and jewellery valued at £400 had been taken.
“You were, in my opinion, a member of a gang which carried out this attack.”
‘There had also been an untidy search of the house and jewellery valued at £400 had been taken’