A MASKED man armed with a samurai sword who put six people through a “petrifying ordeal” has been jailed today for four years and eight months.
Kyle Poole, aged 26, admitted kidnapping Luke Jones and his girlfriend Hannah Wright, and causing affray at the home of Carwyn Jones.
Parick Griffiths, prosecuting, told Swansea crown court how Poole, from Stockport near Manchester, had visited his aunt, Michaela Jones, in Cardigan and had been told that Carwyn Jones, then her boyfriend, had been involved in a minor act of violence.
Poole decided to take revenge and drove to Mr Jones’ home, Hafod Llwyd Farm, at Llechryd.
He used a scarf as a mask and put on a pair of latex gloves before bursting into a caravan in the grounds of the farmhouse and “scaring the daylight” out of Mr Jones and Miss Wright.
Poole punched Mr Jones to his eye and demanded to know where he could find Carwyn Jones.
Poole then placed two large kitchen knives in his left hand and a three foot long samurai sword in his right hand and marched the couple to the farmhouse.
He burst into the living room where Carwyn Jones was watching television with his three children, aged between seven and 14.
“It is not difficult to imagine the terror they would have felt,” said Mr Griffiths.
Poole told Carwyn Jones he was going to “slice him up” and lunged at him with the knives and the sword. Mr Jones grabbed the blade of the sword but Poole “kept on coming” and cut his hand and his cheek.
Carwyn Jones managed to push him away and all six victims fled in different directions.
Carwyn and Luke Jones locked themselves in the caravan, three minors who were also present ran out onto a road, and Miss Wright spent twenty minutes hiding behind a wall “scared out of her wits” that Poole would find her.
A motorist rescued the children and telephoned the police.
Poole was seen to drive away from the farm in a Vauxhall car, which he crashed into a fence and abandoned. He was arrested later in Cardigan.
Poole maintained he had intended to frighten Carwyn Jones but not to harm him.
Judge Keith Thomas said when people armed themselves with knives then serious injury can follow.
He said Poole had been “masked and armed to the teeth” and had put his victims through a petrifying experience.
Judge Thomas said he regarded the kidnaps and the violence at the farmhouse as separate incidents.
He jailed Poole for 32 months for the kidnaps, with an additional 24 months for the affray.
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