A wanted robber, who snatched a necklace from a shop assistant’s neck then fled from police in a high-speed chase through residential streets in a car snatched from his grandmother, has been locked-up for twenty-five months.
Jobless Dujon Fyle, 18, of Witton Lane, Bromley, formerly of George Lane, Lewisham was being hunted by police after he was identified on CCTV ripping the chain from the diminutive female victim.
Fyle pleaded guilty at Croydon Crown Court to robbing the victim in Costcutter, (pictured) Brockley Road, Brockley on May 15.
He also pleaded guilty to the aggravated taking and driving away of his grandmother’s Renault Megane on June 4 and driving it dangerously and without insurance in Adelaide Avenue, Brockley Road and Lewisham Way.
Prosecutor Mr. Shiraz Ruston told the court it was 3.30pm when Fyle entered the shop and as the victim stacked shelves grabbed her £300 necklace from behind.
“A degree of force was used. She was a small vulnerable victim who had no chance of fighting back,” explained the prosecutor. “She says she was very shaken by it.”
Three weeks later police tried to stop Fyle who had snatched his grandmother’s spare car keys and took her vehicle behind her back.
“The Megane made of at speed and during the chase a red light was shot, with the vehicle overtaking on the wrong side of the road, reaching 60 mph in a residential area,” said Mr. Ruston.
Two parked vehicles were also damaged during the pursuit as Fyle collided with them.
The court heard Fyle, who has been offending since aged seven, endured a violent family background and his 22 year-old brother Leon, of Laleham Road, Catford was convicted in August of the murder of transsexual Destiny Lauren, 29, in Leighton Crescent, Kentish Town.
“He saw the chain and in a moment of opportunism grabbed that chain,” said Fyle’s lawyer Mr. Nigel Serjent. “In desperate times he acted stupidly and horribly.”
Fyle has previous convictions for multiple assaults, plus offences of robbery, theft, criminal damage and drug possession and also admitted he was in breach of a sixty hour community service order imposed last year.
“You went up behind her, grabbed her from behind and pulled at the gold necklace repeatedly and would not stop until you took it,” Judge Daniel Flahive told the defendant. “She was small and vulnerable.
“You also took your grandmother’s car and drove it dangerously through the streets of south-east London.”
Judge Flahive sentenced Fyle to twelve months youth custody for the robbery, plus twelve months consecutive for dangerous driving and one month’s consecutive for breaching the earlier order.
He received nine months concurrent for aggravated vehicle taking, was disqualified from driving for fifteen months and given eleven penalty points.
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