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Kilmarnock woman jailed for helping kidnap before using bank card to buy cigarettes

A woman from Kilmarnock has been jailed for kidnapping and beating a man who stole a bank card to buy cigarettes from a nearby shop .

Veronica Finnie, 42, along with her accomplice, her girlfriend David Ingham, 46, arrested a man and detained him at a New Cumnock home.

She was today sentenced to her two and a half years' imprisonment by Lord Beckett after appearing at the High Court in Edinburgh.

The court heard how two people in the December 2020 attack refused to leave the home on Lime Street in town.

During the assault, he was grabbed by the throat, thrown and dragged to the floor.

He was told he would die and had to give his PIN his code to a bank card just before he lost consciousness.

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Before the two went to his nearby Premier store, they also robbed him of a Nokia cell phone and used the stolen bank card to buy him over £30 of cigarettes. did. After the

incident, the victim required hospital treatment and an X-ray revealed that his eye socket was broken. Police then became aware of the pair's activities and brought them to justice.

They were convicted of kidnapping and fraud following proceedings inAir Sheriff's Court.

The sheriff then sent the case to the High Court for judgment, which was originally convened before Lord Judge Beckett last January.

On Wednesday, Lord Beckett further stayed sentence against Ingham. time to talk to him.

Finney's defense attorney, Jim Stevenson, told the court he was grateful that she was imprisoned for her actions. I was told that he exercised "influence" over Finney of Kilmarnock.

Stephenson added:

Lord Beckett, sentenced, said that since Finney's release from prison, she had been 12 years old. ordered to be monitored for a month.

He added:

``I have concluded that there is no substitute for a prison sentence. I am prepared to distinguish between the two of you, and the Court's decision in this case will be one month out of thirty, or two and a half years."

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