Danielle Ryde, 42, who drove getaway driver Darren Cox to 15 of the 21 burglaries, received a suspended sentence for her role in the elderly home targeting operation.
The final member of a three-strong burglary gang which mainly targeted elderly people’s homes while they were away on holiday has been spared immediate custody. A judge told Danielle Ryde he was satisfied she had been 'coerced and controlled” by the ringleader Darren Cox to drive him to 15 of the 21 break-ins during the spree across Nottingham shire, Derbyshire and Lancashire.
When he jailed Cox and accomplice Declan Prosser, last summer, Judge James Sampson told the 42-year-old grandmother he would “test” her to stay out of trouble and to co-operate with whatever requirements the probation service gave her until Friday, January 3. Now she has proven both, he handed her a 20-month jail sentence, suspended for 21 months. The judge said: “I am going to sentence you on the basis that what you did was entirely out of character for you. “You have some old and irrelevant precious convictions and I am going to disregard those. I am entirely satisfied you were controlled and coerced by Cox and so it seems to me it is an appropriate case for a suspended sentence order.” At a sentencing hearing in July, the same court heard how during the spate of break-ins, masked Darren Cox would drill holes in window frames and ransack the properties for jewellery worth tens of thousands of pounds. On 15 of the 21 occasions he was driven to and from the scene by Ryde and on eight of those, Prosser was paid to be the group’s lookout. Phillip Plant, prosecuting, said the burglaries all took place between May and October, 2021. He said they happened in Ilkeston, Smalley, Heanor, Selston, Newthorpe, Underwood, Edwinstowe, Calverton, Southwell, Farnsfield and the last three all happened in Poulton-Le-Fylde, near Blackpool, Lancashire. The prosecutor said: “Ryde accepted that from May to July her role was subordinate to Cox in that she was driving him to the burglaries and at first she was not aware what she was driving him t
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