Wayne Green, aged 42, and Sharon Deen, 43, robbed a Lloyds Pharmacy together and also rammed police in a drug dealer’s car
Birmingham Crown Court(Image: Nick Wilkinson/Birmingham Live)
A judge told a woman to ditch her crook boyfriend following a bizarre crime spree.
Wayne Green, aged 42, and Sharon Deen, 43, robbed a Lloyds Pharmacy and ended up in a drug dealer’s car smashing into police.
Green, who has committed 118 previous offences, also burgled a Chicken.com takeaway and broke into a home while the occupants were asleep.
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In the latter incident he stole bananas which he and Deen were seen eating on CCTV footage after walking away from the scene.
The couple, who both have issues with drug addiction, were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on Thursday, June 26 but received very different outcomes.
Deen, of Hilltop Road, Oldbury, was handed a 15-month suspended sentence after admitting robbery, assault and two counts of possessing class A drugs.
In an unusual move Judge Peter Cooke dealt with her separately, as she watched via a video link from HMP Foston Hall.
The reason soon became clear as he said: “If you are going to turn your life around you need positive influences in your life.
“I’m sorry to have to say this because I know you two are fond of one another, but Wayne Green will never be able to be the positive influence you need.
“A man with 118 offences and years in prison behind him even before today.
“He is never going to be the positive influence you need.
“As soon as you accept that and move on the better.”
Green, of Hob Moor Road, Small Heath, was then brought back into the dock.
He had been disruptive throughout the hearing, at one stage ‘sacking’ his barrister and u-turning on one of his guilty pleas before reneging on both decisions.
Judge Cooke said: “I have dealt with Sharon Deen already. It maybe of some comfort to you I felt I was able to give her a suspended sentence.
“This is not a stage in the proceedings for a dialogue between you and me. You have been verbal from the dock this afternoon.”
Having admitted the same offences as his girlfriend, as well as dangerous driving and two counts of burglary, he was sentenced to five years and banned from driving for five years.
Green had gone in to Chicken.com on Bearwood Road in Smethwick on October 5 last year.
He swiped a worker’s iPhone 13 Pro, worth £1,000, from behind the counter while the staff were all in the kitchen.
Later the same night he clambered through the window of a home in Merrivale Road, Smethwick, while the occupants were asleep.
He let himself out through the front door having found the keys and stolen a purse, £100 in cash, a packet of biscuits and the bananas.
“Footage shows Mr Green and Miss Deen walking along eating bananas,” said prosecutor Alison Scott-Jones, who confirmed Deen was not convicted in relation to the burglary.
But the couple did act together when they robbed Lloyds Pharmacy at 10.45am on October 17.
When two female staff tried to stop them stealing shampoo and conditioner Deen pulled one of the workers to the ground by her hair and spat in the face of another.
Green pushed and shoved at them to free his girlfriend.
Judge Cooke said: “It was not the gravest in terms of the items of property taken or the violence exhibited but I don’t trivialise it for one moment.
“This will be an experience at work which will live with each of the ladies involved, probably for the rest of their lives.
“It has become a nightmare feature of people engaged in retail work these days, people who are usually women doing shop work finding themselves confronted with behaviour and aggression such as this.”
Finally, the couple were in a silver Volkswagen Golf in Oldbury on October 20 when they were seen acting ‘bizarrely’ by police who confronted them.
Green, who was driving, tried to ram them three times, hitting force vehicles twice.
He then stuffed bags of drugs into his mouth before being detained, with officers recovering further large amounts of cocaine and heroin inside the car.
But the couple were not charged with supplying them.
Ms Scott-Jones said: “Considerable police intelligence checks were made.
“The car was never reported stolen but belonged to a significant drug dealer.
“He (Green) did admit taking the vehicle from the dealer.”
Elizabeth Hartley, defending Green, said he had a difficult upbringing and a ‘consistent struggle’ with class A drug addiction, which he was now addressing in custody.
Elisabeth MacDermott, for Deen, told the court she had learning difficulties and came from a deprived background.
She added she had taken positive steps in custody towards tackling her drug addiction as well as taken educational courses.
Judge Cooke said: “It is quite clear I am dealing with a very limited person with a number of frailties and vulnerabilities.
“She has been assessed as having an IQ of only 70.
“It is fair to say her antecedents (criminal record), while not insignificant, are of a different order and magnitude from her co-defendant.”
He ordered Deen to complete 35 days of rehabilitation activity as part of her sentence.