The teenager was spotted on top of the grandmother’s conservatory (Image: Google/Merseyside Police)
A banging noise alerted a woman to the presence of an armed and teenager on top of her conservatory.
The victim, who hasn’t been named, was lying in bed at around 8:30am on September 2, 2024, at her home in Kirkby, Merseyside, when she heard a banging noise and the sound of glass shattering.
She opened her blinds to investigate and found that one of her windows had been smashed and a teenager holding a was kneeling on the roof of her conservatory, just below her.
The grandmother initially “panicked and shouted for him to get out”, prosecutor Henry Rider told Crown Court, before attempting to hit him with a picture frame.
Upon spotting his weapon, she then “ran for her life” to her neighbour’s house – at which point she realised she had suffered three “sizeable arm wounds”, leaving “blood everywhere”.
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The teenager was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday (Image: Getty)
Logan Brown had reportedly been attacked at a party before climbing on the roof of the glasshouse, and proceeded to enter the house and barricade himself inside its front room by piling furniture up against the door.
Witnesses heard him shouting “They’re coming to get me, they’re after me”, and “Help me, they’re going to kill me, I’m being chased”,
Police eventually managed to arrest Brown by pulling him through the living room window.
The teen had white powder around his nostrils, the court was told, and tested positive for ketamine after he was detained.
He told authorities that he had come “under attack from loads of lads” at a party earlier that evening, two of whom had machetes and one of whom he had disarmed before heading to the unlucky grandmother’s house.
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Brown had one previous conviction for robbery and threatening behaviour in December 2023, for which he was handed a 12-month youth referral order.
He admitted to affray, possession of a bladed article in a public place and criminal damage in court on Wednesday, February 26, and was sentenced to 21 months in a young offenders’ institute.
Brown’s victim said she had been “unable to walk properly for weeks” following the incident due to smashed glass stuck in her feet – and admitted to having “constant flashbacks and nightmares”.
“I’ve lived in my home happily for 20 years and brought up two children here,” she said in a statement read out in court. “I’m now having to consider leaving my home.
“I even feel nervous going out into the garden to put my washing out or play with my granddaughter. The thought of having to move breaks my heart.”
Defence lawyer Julian Nutter suggested that Brown was a “vulnerable” individual who suffers from autism and ADHD and had been in a state of “genuine terror” after drinking and taking drugs during the incident.
Judge Denis Watson KC told the teenager: “It is hard to imagine the terror of someone in the process of waking up in the morning to be confronted with this horrific scene … You effectively terrified a householder who had no connection with you whatsoever.
“There is no independent evidence to support your claim that you suffer from autism spectrum disorder or ADHD. What is clear is that you were far more interested in taking such drugs as you could get your hands on.”