A Merseyside man who left a 92-year-old grandmother with serious leg injuries after he crashed his BMW into her house was previously jailed for kidnap.
Edna Kearns was trapped in her bedroom after Michael Vose's BMW smashed through her bungalow during the early hours of the morning. Neighbours thought a 'bomb had gone off' due to the scale of the damage. Vose was arrested when police arrived at the scene.
Photographs showed a BMW X6 completely embedded in the house and emergency workers had to carefully extricate Ms Kearns from the rubble. Vose, who later admitted causing serious injury through dangerous driving and causing criminal damage to the property, is set to be sentenced.
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The ECHO can now reveal that Vose was previously jailed in relation to a kidnap plot linked to a drug debt. In 2015 Mold Crown Court heard how Vose travelled to Prestatyn in North Wales with a second man to collect a £10,000 debt.
The court heard that the two Merseyside men accused a local man of stealing a cannabis crop in Liverpool worth around £10,000. They threatened him, told him to get into the car, and said that they would take him to Liverpool and that his father would have to get the cash.
The two men managed to get the victim inside Vose's Volvo, and then set off for Liverpool. But the kidnap victim managed to jump out when the car stopped at lights, and ran into a nearby house where he raised the alarm.
Vose and the second man were both arrested when police stopped his Volvo on the A550 Welsh Road on Deeside. Prosecuting barrister Kim Halsall told the court that the victim was clearly threatened.
The victim was told it could go “one of two ways – very good or very bad” and that his father had two days to get the £10,000. He was told he could end up in hospital for a very long time.
Vose and his co-accused were found guilty of kidnap and blackmail after a trial.
Vose was jailed for 40 months.
Speaking after the men were jailed Detective Constable Dean Jones said: "This was a very traumatic incident for the victim, and I am satisfied with the sentences imposed.
"I hope this sends out a message to others that this sort of criminality, which fortunately is rare in north Wales, is totally unacceptable and we will do all we can to bring such individuals to justice and protect our community.”
The emergency services were called out to White Horse Grove in Bolton, Greater Manchester, during the early hours of November 28 last year. They found a black BMW X6 completely embedded inside a bungalow surrounded by debris including bricks and a radiator.
Vose was seen wandering around nearby and arrested.
Edna Kearns was discharged from hospital earlier this year but died at Royal Bolton Hospital on April 8.
The horror smash happened at the approach to a mini-roundabout at Chew Moor Lane's junction with Bolton Road. The scale of the crash left neighbours shocked.
Local woman Jean Partington said she had just woken up when she heard ‘two terrific bangs’.
She said: “I thought it was a bomb.
"I went to the window and couldn’t see anything because it was dark. I could hear a voice crying out so rang the police.
"When I went out, all I could see was devastation. It was frightening."
Vose, of Mount Pleasant Avenue, St Helens, has admitted causing serious injury through dangerous driving and causing criminal damage to the property. He will also be sentenced for causing actual bodily harm to another woman and damaging her wardrobe and wall.
The St Helens man , who was remanded into custody after the crash , will be sentenced on July 1 at Bolton Crown Court.
