Three men who were part of a raid in which a stun gun was held to a six-month-old baby’s head have been jailed.

James Bound, Stephen Sefton and Connar Symons, all from Plymouth, barged into a house in the city intending to steal money, Plymouth Crown Court heard.

The gang demanded money from a couple by threatening to hurt their baby.

All three admitted aggravated burglary. Bound, 34, and Sefton, 42, got five years. Symons, 18, was sent to a young offenders institute for three years.

Drugs debt

The court heard that Bound, of North Road East, owed a substantial amount of money to Liverpool drug dealers who had threatened him with violence unless they repaid him.

Bound, with Symons of Penrith Gardens, and Sefton of Queens Gate, along with another man, Mark Gazey, donned balaclavas and knocked on the door of a house in Blandford Road on 13 January 2009.

They pushed the homeowner and her two teenage children into the living room, and went upstairs to where a couple were in a bedroom with their baby.

A home-made stun gun was put close to the child and the father was told: “Pay us or we’ll hurt your baby.”

After being told there was no money, the gang fled empty-handed.

Gazey, of Armada Street, Plymouth, was jailed for four years in September 2009 for his part in the raid.