A TEENAGER who was part of a hooded gang that car-jacked a Bradford judge's high-powered Audi has been locked up for six-and-a-half years.

Amir Khan was yesterday found guilty by a jury at Bradford Crown Court of being involved in a planned robbery that targeted Lindsay Golland as she drove out of a secure car park at Phoenix House in Sunbridge Road in the centre of the city.

District Tribunal Judge Golland,was dragged from her white Audi S3 Quattro by two masked assailants as she left an immigration tribunal hearing.

She suffered a fractured rib and bruising in the robbery on October 30, 2015. She was treated in hospital and discharged with painkillers.

Khan, 18, of Pearson Street, off Leeds Road, Bradford, was also convicted of stealing a Mini car from an address in Valley Hill Road, Elland, the previous day.

He pleaded guilty to handling a stolen Audi A3 in October, 2016, and handling a driving licence stolen from a social worker's car, on December 3 last year.

Khan was cleared by the jury of burgling the house where the Mini keys were stolen.

Prosecutor Mark Brookes told the jury during the trial that the robbers who confronted District Tribunal Judge Golland got away in her car containing an iPad, a £3,500 Rolex watch and gold and diamond jewellery.

They approached her from a blue BMW parked near the entrance to the car park.

“The passenger from the BMW opened her car passenger door and she grabbed her handbag," said Mr Brookes.

"The man shouted at her to get out and another man opened her driver’s side door. She clung to the steering wheel but the car lurched forward and she fell out, sustaining some injuries," Mr Brookes said.

An iPad in the boot of the Audi was fitted with a tracking app and police traced it to Wetland Street, Bradford, where they found it inside the stolen Mini, now on false registration plates.

Witnesses saw a blue BMW being driven away at speed.

Khan's fingerprints were found on the false plates and a search of his address led to police seizing a key that fitted the stolen Mini and an electric fob belonging to District Judge Golland.

Khan had two previous convictions for aggravated vehicle taking and had served a four month Youth Court sentence of detention and training.

The court heard that District Judge Golland made a victim personal statement two months after the carjacking in which she described feeling anxious and unsafe.

She was unable to return to work for a month after the attack and was making a phased return, being escorted in and out of the building.

She said: "My quality of life has changed beyond recognition."

The judge spoke at that time of suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and being unable to go out socially.

Khan's barrister, Robin Frieze, said the robbers were unarmed and no very significant force was used.

Khan was 17 at the time and still a very young man.

"He was mixed up on the fringes of a gang of sophisticated criminals in which he played a part, but he was not a big player," Mr Frieze said.

Judge David Hatton QC said District Judge Golland was forced out of her car, suffering considerable stress and trauma.

"Whether you were one of the two hooded assailants, it is very difficult for me to say, but certainly you were involved in that offence to a significant degree," the judge said.

He sentenced Khan to six years in a young offender institution for the robbery, with six months consecutive for handling the stolen Audi while on bail.

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