Jail for couple who left robbery accomplice to die

Kirk Price, 38, was stabbed through the heart and died from his injuries after Barrie Moseley, 67, hit out as the trio tried to rob him.

Mark Puckering, 29, and Kerry Daysley, 32, plotted with their friend Price to rob Mr Moseley in his city centre home in Hull.

Daysley went to his house promising sexual favours, but once she arrived, she let Puckering and Price inside so they could rob Mr Moseley.

But the pensioner fought back and stabbed Price with a kitchen knife.

Prosecutor Anil Murray told Hull Crown Court: “Barrie Moseley took steps to defend himself. He was no match for them. He was terrified, he was frightened and thought they were going to kill him.”

The robbers stole cash and a phone before leaving the house but despite Price’s injury, Puckering refused to call for an ambulance.

Daysley dialled 999, but refused to give any details of their whereabouts.

She also failed to follow the operator’s instructions to give Price mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before she and Puckering fled, leaving their friend to die in the street.

An ambulance was only called when Price was found bleeding in the street by local BBC Radio presenter Phil White. He was pronounced dead at hospital.

Puckering’s barrister Charlotte Baines said: “It was a cowardly thing he did when he left his friend dying in the street. He bitterly regrets it. He took the coward’s way out and saved himself.”

Daysley pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob Mr Moseley on September 15 last year and Puckering admitted robbery.

Puckering, of Dock House, Hull, has previous convictions for dishonesty, burglary and snatching a purse from an elderly woman in a wheelchair, while Daysley, of De La Pole Avenue, Hull, has previous convictions for burglary and theft.

Recorder Duncan Smith sentenced Puckering to eight years’ jail and Daysley to four years. He said: “It was an attack on an elderly and vulnerable man in his own home.

“This was an evil and wicked act and, as a result, a man lost his life.”

Mr Moseley was originally charged with murder but the charges were dropped on grounds of self-defence.