Moment police board plane and arrest 'barbaric' pair who poured boiling water over elderly couple

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This was the moment police boarded a plane to arrest two “barbaric” thugs who poured boiling water over an elderly couple in a terrifying raid on their home.

Footage shows police gaining access to a plane at Heathrow to arrest them as they returned from a shopping trip in Dubai after their £50,000 raid.

Their luggage was found to contain more than £18,000 of luxury goods.

Kacey Adams, 33, and 32-year-old Daniel Wallace smashed their way into their victims' home in Halstead during the robbery.

Kacey Adams and Daniel Wallace were arrested on a plane at Heathrow after a huge spending spree in Dubai
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The men subjected their victims to a near-two-hour ordeal in which they beat them poured a kettle of boiling water over them.

The pair tied up John Buswell, 66, and his wife Janis, 64, before repeatedly assaulting them and demanding money.

Both men were described as “highly dangerous, ruthless professional criminals prepared to use serious violence", by Judge Charles Gratwicke, sentencing them at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday.

The men both admitted aggravated burglary and causing grievous bodily harm with intent at an earlier hearing at Maidstone Crown Court.

They were also sentenced for a tit-for-tat drive-by shooting after they were found guilty of conspiracy to murder following an earlier trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.

Adams, formerly of Covert Road, Hainault, Ilford, London, and Wallace, of no fixed address, were both sentenced to life in prison.

And they must serve 12-and-a-half years before being considered for release.

The pair were sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court after subjecting an elderly couple to a two-hour ordeal
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Each defendant was given three life sentences, with a minimum jail term of 12-and-a-half years for conspiracy to murder, and seven-and-a-half years for both aggravated burglary and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

All sentences will be served concurrently.

The two defendants poured two kettles of boiling water over Mrs Buswell and threatened to sever her fingers and gouge one of her eyes out, the court heard.

The judge also heard how they repeatedly punched Mr Buswell in the face and threatened to cut his ears off, and poured one kettle of boiling water over him.

They also threatened the couple with a knife and a hot iron.

Judge Gratwicke said Adams and Wallace had used "gratuitous violence for no reason at all".

Adams and Wallace, together with a third man who has never been caught, made off with around £50,000 on April 26 last year.

The two defendants jetted to Dubai on a spending spree after the raid, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.

Kacey Adams, 33, left, and Daniel Wallace, 32, right, were given life sentences after they broke into the couple's home and tied them up
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Judge Gratwicke said: "You left having ruined the lives of those two pensioners.”

In a victim impact statement, Mrs Buswell said: "What these criminals did to me was barbaric."

A fourth man, 27-year-old Drew Morris, of Downhall Road, Rayleigh, Essex, admitted to being the getaway driver.

But he said he did not enter the house or know what was going to happen.

He admitted simple burglary at an earlier hearing and was sentenced to four years and three months in prison at Chelmsford Crown Court.

Adams and Wallace were also sentenced for a drive-by shooting in Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, in May 2016 which their victim survived.

They were convicted of conspiracy to murder along with a third defendant, 25-year-old Edward Dooley, of St Edwards Way, Romford.

Judge Gratwicke said Dooley was "not involved in the actual shooting" but was an organiser.

He jailed Dooley for 16 years, of which he must serve half before he is considered for release on licence.

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