Robber jailed after violent assault

A violent robber who attacked a man has been jailed for more than eight years.

Jamie Willis, 35, assaulted the man outside a block of flats close to The Blue Moon Pub in Norfolk Street, Cambridge, at about 8.30pm on Monday, 19 December, last year.

He had asked the victim if he wanted to smoke cannabis and then punched him in the head causing him to fall to the ground.

Pictured: Jamie Willis, 35. 

Willis stamped on his back and kicked him before he went through the victim’s coat pockets and stole £45 in cash, a Samsung mobile phone and a bottle of Hugo Boss aftershave.

The victim got up and tried to confront Willis who then hit and punched him in the head again.

After this, the victim left in the direction of East Road and Willis also left the area.

The victim reported the crime to police via the yellow phone at Parkside Police Station and suffered minor injuries.

Two months previously on Sunday, 1 October, Willis attacked his former partner in Sturton Street at about 10.30pm.

She suffered minor injuries and Willis was arrested on Wednesday, 4 October, in Warkworth Terrace and released on bail.

On Friday (2 August), Willis, of Brooks Road, Cambridge, was jailed for eight years and two months having been found guilty of robbery at an earlier hearing.

He had also pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm at an earlier hearing.

Willis was handed an indefinite restraining order against his former partner and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £228. 

DC Jasmine Rouse said: “Willis is a violent man who is a danger to the public having disgracefully robbed a man and assaulted his former partner in little more than two months.

“I am delighted he is now behind bars where hopefully he can reflect on his dangerous and shocking behaviour.

“We will not tolerate these levels of violence on the streets of Cambridgeshire.”