A lesbian couple have been jailed for a total of nearly three years after a businessman was beaten up and mugged for his wallet during a 'revenge' raid at his seaside massage parlour.
Zoe Hickey, 29, and her partner Imogen Mellor, 28, went on the run - like Thelma and Louise in the 1991 film - with their pet hamster after Kevin Garfoot was attacked with a rubber mallet and then kicked and punched about the head.
Just an hour earlier Mellor, who had been working and living at the parlour, was ordered to leave by Mr Garfoot after he found she had been secretly allowing former holiday camp worker Hickey to stay there in Blackpool, Lancashire.
She remonstrated with her boss as he sat at his desk doing paperwork then beat him to the floor with the mallet.
As he lay bleeding, the couple took £220 in cash before fleeing the scene with a hamster they kept that the flat. They were on the run for ten days before being arrested in the seaside resort.
A loyalist "supergrass" who admitted the murders of five people among hundreds of offences has had a 35-year jail term reduced to six-and-a-half years for helping the police.
ayeA loyalist "supergrass" who admitted the murders of five people among hundreds of offences has had a 35-year jail term reduced to six-and-a-half years for helping the police.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42857474