Window Cleaners Attacked & A Window Cleaner Assault

Daniel Chandler, Jordan Grant and Sarah Mitchell-Cadel caught on CCTV cameras during the attack on window cleaners - using the window cleaners pole to attack them.

Four sentenced for violent attack on window cleaners in Barnet: Four yobs have been sentenced after randomly attacking two window cleaners in Barnet. Three were jailed at Wood Green Crown Court on November 17 for the attack that saw both victims treated in hospital. Sarah Mitchell-Caddel, 21, of Tarling Road, was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, with a six-month curfew. Daniel Chandler, 22, of Benedict Way, was sentenced to four years in prison, Danny Lee Thurgood, 20, of Juliana Close, was sentenced to two years in a young offenders institute and Jordan Grant, 21, of The Market Place, Falloden Way, was sentenced to three years in prison.

The group attacked the window cleaners in Ballards Lane as they worked on April 13 near the junction with Claverly Grove. When the victims, aged 45 and 51, asked them not to tamper with their equipment, Thurgood and Chandler attacked both men. One of the victims suffered a broken nose. Thurgood fled the scene and Chandler walked away but returned with Jordan and Mitchell-Caddel, who picked up a nearby cleaner’s pole and handed it to Chandler. He and Grant then beat the second victim.

A CCTV mounted in Ballards Lane captured the attack and the CCTV operator alerted the police. Chandler, Grant and Mitchell-Caddel fled the scene when the police arrived, leaving the second victim with severe cuts to his face and head. Grant and Mitchell-Cadel were quickly caught in the immediate area and Chandler and Thurgood were later identified and arrested. The first victim suffered a broken nose and the second victim needed 19 stitches to his face and head.

Window cleaner raped disabled woman: A Preston window cleaner followed a severely disabled woman home and sexually assaulted her before he returned the next day and raped her. Andrew Richardson, (pictured) 31, of Thornton Road, Morecambe, was jailed indefinitely on Wednesday for public protection after he admitted taking advantage of his "extremely vulnerable" victim who he met on Morecambe promenade. Sentencing at Preston Crown Court, Judge Norman Wright said the defendant took advantage of his victim as he subjected her to an "appalling and horrific" ordeal. Richardson pleaded guilty to rape and sexual assault at an earlier hearing but initially lied to detectives that sex had been consensual between the pair.

Duncan Birrell, prosecuting, said the woman, in her 50s, had been out walking her dog on June 18 when Richardson approached her and struck up a conversation. "The prosecution say that it would have been immediately obvious to the defendant that she was vulnerable," he said. He exposed himself to her and then followed her home where he effectively forced himself in and then sexually assaulted her. Richardson went back to her home the next day and again put his foot in the door as she opened it. He went on to rape her and the ordeal only stopped when the woman's care support worker called in. Richardson lied that he was a relative and left the address before the victim was found upstairs in her bath.

Michael Hayton, defending, said his client had lived a good life until the collapse of his relationship with his long-term partner and mother of his child. He lost his job as a manager at an estate agent in Morecambe through heavy drinking and had then set up his own window cleaning business. His pre-sentence report said the defendant had only shown a superficial understanding of what he had done and did not fully appreciate the effects of his actions. Mr Hayton said although the offences were "extremely serious" they could be treated as "a one-off" as he argued for a determinate sentence.

Judge Wright disagreed and said Richardson should serve at least four years behind bars before he could be considered for parole. Addressing the defendant, he said: "These are serious matters. They were horrific and appalling.and can provoke nothing but utter revulsion  from anyone learning what you did." He concluded that the absence of information on what triggered the offences meant he could not be satisfied that Richardson posed no significant risk to the public in future. Richardson also pleaded guilty to stealing a small amount of money from the woman on June 18 and was given eight months in jail, to run concurrently.