Man convicted of breaking into Ashely Cole's house and threatening to cut off finger
Kurtis Dilks, 35, was part of a gang that smashed into the defender's house wearing masks on 21 January 2020.
"I was on my knees, waiting to be killed," Cole said in footage of an interview shown at Nottingham Crown Court. He told police he"knew" he was going to die as the raiders tied his hands behind his back while he was holding his young daughter. Dilks was the only one of the gang to be caught after his DNA was found on cable ties used to restrain Cole and his partner, Sharon Canu, the court heard.The 35-year-old courier claimed his DNA was discovered on the ties, and also from a knife recovered from the scene in Fetcham, Surrey, because those items had previously been stolen from his van.
Nevertheless, he was convicted alongside five others over a string of robberies and burglaries between October 2018 and January 2020.
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