Prison for half-brothers after drunken robberies

COURT TOLD BOTH DEFENDANTS HAD LONG LIST OF CONVICTIONS

- CARL EVE

TWO half-brothers have been jailed after they went on a drunken robbery spree in the Greenbank area of Plymouth.

Former 'Honicknowle Defence Regiment' leader Nathan Danvers and his half-brother, Barry Hambley, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court to be sentenced for their part in the incidents on the evening of January 2 this year.

Danvers, of Union Street, Plymouth, and Hambley, of Alcester Close, Plymouth, were arrested by police following a series of incidents which saw them charged with several offences to which they pleaded guilty. Police said all the incidents took place within less than one kilometre of each other, within a 15 to 20 minute window, the first being in Greenbank Road, which saw a 51-year-old targeted.

Prosecutor Tom Faulkner told the court that the pair were "intoxicated", were holding bottles of spirits, and targeted people they met along their way. He remarked how Hambley had at some stage that night been stabbed and was walking along, bleeding from his wound, before he and his half-brother began to target their victims.