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BBC News

Friday, 21 June, 2002, 14:49 GMT 15:49 UK

Burglar jailed for 'sickening' attack

A "wicked and sadistic" burglar who stabbed a disabled woman while her husband was tortured has been jailed for 12 years.

Stuart Dodson, from Brixton, south-west London, used a carving knife to stab 72-year-old Alice Israel after she refused to reveal where she kept her money.

Her husband, retired solicitor William Israel, 73, was hit repeatedly with a belt and kicked several times in the back despite pleading that he had cancer of the spine.

Judge Roger Sanders said: "You demonstrated by your behaviour that you have a thoroughly wicked propensity for sadism from which the public needs to be protected for a very long time."

Drugs habit

Dodson escaped from the couple's home in Kennington, south London, in October 2001 with a few possessions.

One of his accomplices, Christopher Flynn, of Woking Close, Barnes, south-west London, was jailed for three years for his role as a look-out.

Dodson, 28, of Stockwell Garden Estate, who has previous convictions for assault, burglary and possessing a bladed article, admitted one charge of aggravated burglary.

Judge Sanders said the couple Dodson had targeted had lived happily in their home for 22 years.

'Thoroughly wicked'

"You and your companion broke into those premises intending to steal in order to feed your drugs habit.

"What did you do? Encouraged by your accomplice, you stabbed that frail innocent lady through the thigh with her own kitchen knife while she was lying in bed unable to move.

"The other man took her husband's belt and struck him with it in order to discover his supposed hidden valuables.

"The facts I have related amount to one of the most sickening and monstrous forms of aggravated burglary I have ever heard."

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