18-year-old jailed for seven years after smashing into Cambridge home and brandishing knife
A teenager who smashed his way into a Cambridge home and chased those inside while brandishing a knife has been jailed for seven years and two months.
Zakaraya Juayl, 18, who has previous convictions for weapons offences, will also spend an additional three years on licence following his crimes in the early hours of September 14, 2020.
Juayl was heard shouting for his “friend” to come out of her home in Kingfisher Way. The girl’s mother looked out the window to see the 18-year-old wearing a black hoodie and face mask and holding a large knife.
After ignoring his pleas, they went back to bed but shortly afterwards Juayl smashed through the kitchen window and chased the three people in the house, including a 12-year-old boy, forcing them to barricade themselves into a bedroom.
Juayl repeatedly used his knife to stab the door and slashed a number of coats that were hanging up, before fleeing on an electric scooter after the police had been called.
Juayl was identified by his description and officers went to his home in Chesterton Road the next morning.
He was sitting inside his youth worker’s car about to leave for his first day at sixth form college.
The teenager attempted to escape but was arrested and found in possession of a large combat knife.
Juayl pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, criminal damage and two counts of possession of a knife.
He was jailed at Leeds Crown Court last Friday, when a five-year restraining order was also imposed, ordering him not to contact the victims or enter Cambridge.
Det Con Matt Smith, who investigated, said: “Juayl is a violent individual with previous convictions for weapons offences. This was a heinous and senseless attack on a family that had originally befriended him.
“This kind of lawlessness will not be tolerated and the sentence reflects the seriousness and terror Juayl caused to the family.”
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