Robber gets 10 years in prison for slow torture of pensioner
A ROBBER who tied up and tortured a pensioner to extract his bank details has been jailed for 10 years.
Frail Neil Varley, 62, almost died after he was starved of food and water during his six-day ordeal at the hands of Jevgenij Kizajev.
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MERCILESS: Jevgenij Kizajev.
The robber was caught after an inquisitive neighbour raised the alarm when she saw Kizajev entering Mr Varley’s flat in west Hull.
Elizabeth Davis, who had barely spoken to Mr Varley in the past, also noticed his key was not in the keyhole – which had been his habit.
She called the landlord who alerted the police and broke down Mr Varley’s door and found him lying seriously ill on his bed.
Kizajev, 24, had fled to London. He was caught after his DNA was found on cigarette stubs left in Mr Varley’s flat.
Detective Constable Neil Kitching said: “If he hadn’t have been found he could very well have died.
“He was subjected to a horrific ordeal and is still very much affected by the incident now and still has ongoing problems resulting from it.”
At Hull Crown Court, Judge Jeremy Richardson described Kizajev as a “cruel, merciless and determined criminal” and said his treatment of Mr Varley amounted to “slow torture”.
“This man was obviously in decline, was obviously seriously ill, and you did absolutely nothing,” he said.
Kizajev targeted Mr Varley, a retired engineer, after living in the same block of flats as him.
When Mr Varley returned from a shopping trip on January 30, Kizajev forced him into his flat, tied him to a chair with parcel tape, blindfolded and gagged him before demanding his bank card and PIN code.
CCTV footage later showed Kizajev using Mr Varley’s bank card to top up his mobile phone and withdraw cash.
He also forced Mr Varley to sign two cheques for £5,000. One was paid into Kizajev’s bank account, with the other deposited into his brother Edward’s account.
Mr Varley told police he believed a handgun was pressed against his temple, which was denied by Kizajev.
Hull Crown Court was told he admitted holding a knife to Mr Varley’s throat and threatening him.
For the prosecution, Mark Kendall said Mr Varley was not given any food during his six days being held captive, apart from once being offered a microwave meal.
“By that time, he felt unable to eat,” said Mr Kendall.
Kizajev ate takeaway meals in front of Mr Varley and only “occasionally” gave him cups of tea. He would also allow him to take his regular medication with water.
When Mr Varley was rescued on February 4, he was suffering from malnutrition, severe dehydration and kidney failure, as well as injuries to his face.
He was resuscitated by police officers and spent 18 days in hospital, with two days on an intravenous drip.
PC Kitching said: “This could have been a murder case.
“He is lucky to be alive.”
Kizajev admitted robbery and false imprisonment. The Home Secretary will decide whether he serves his sentence in prison in the UK or in a Lithuanian jail, where he is
originally from.
Representing Kizajev, Nigel Clive said he had written a letter of apology to Mr Varley.
“This is a terrible offence that must have been extremely frightening for the complainant,” said Mr Clive.
“Even to put it in those terms does not do sufficient justice to the gravity of the situation.”
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by martin, York
Thursday, December 16 2010, 3:20AM
“Interesting not one of these 162 posts no not one have enquired about the condition of the victim. Just prison for this ending of someone's life as they know it. How will they function again on say Christmas day? Eh?
Just imagine if this was your own baby daughter/son 100 year old grandad etc I think you get the point being attacked by this totally premeditaded swine?
Those who object to capital punishment and i'm a bit iffy about it but if this was MY relative I would kill them on the spot what do you believe the nature of their punishment should be?
"Oh they'll get a hard time in prison!" people say as if they Know something we don"t Could you please explain how you know this?
Get real - they'll do time and get out.
All my love to the victim and may the torturer be bagged lagged wired and sh.. well that's prison for you”
by Nick Griffin, Great Britain
Monday, December 13 2010, 9:03PM
“"Now you seem an erudite fellow so i would hazard a guess that you have a basic grasp of geography and it will therefore not have escaped your attention that the UK lies on the North-Western fringe of Europe and so the majority of 'asylum seekers' arriving here would have passed through many European countries along the way, any one of which would be a suitable place to claim asylum. That is of course they are not really asylum seekers but merely economic migrants."
I met a Bangladeshi claiming asylum in Canada who said his knees had been broken by the authorities there or some Africans who'd stowed away on a ship because their country was at war. Does anyone remember the Cambodian boat people in the 1970's?
"By "mobile labour market" do you mean a mobile SKILLED labour market or a mobile bunch of chancers with skills that will not benefit our economy because quite frankly i don't think many of those people climbing out of the back of lorries at Dover are doctors, scientists and engineers."
If the economy is globalised it might be peeing in the wind not to expect labour markets to be like that as well, I think that's what you call the laws of supply & demand.”
by William, Aberdeen
Monday, December 13 2010, 8:00PM
“Nick Griffin you say:
"Most civilised countries in the world provide asylum & refugee status to people whose lives are at threat in their home countries."
Now you seem an erudite fellow so i would hazard a guess that you have a basic grasp of geography and it will therefore not have escaped your attention that the UK lies on the North-Western fringe of Europe and so the majority of 'asylum seekers' arriving here would have passed through many European countries along the way, any one of which would be a suitable place to claim asylum. That is of course they are not really asylum seekers but merely economic migrants.
You also say:
"Realistically can a country like the UK afford to close it's doors to the globalised economy & a more mobile labour market?"
By "mobile labour market" do you mean a mobile SKILLED labour market or a mobile bunch of chancers with skills that will not benefit our economy because quite frankly i don't think many of those people climbing out of the back of lorries at Dover are doctors, scientists and engineers.”
by Tony, Hull
Monday, December 13 2010, 2:57PM
“I hope the Labour Party are proud of their tenure in office allowing the scum of the earth into this Country, signing a Human Right Act so that we cannot deport them and bringing in legislation so that we the indigenous population no longer have a voice.
Unfortunately I don't believe Cameron and his bleeding heart liberals will do anything to change matters”
by Tony, Hull
Monday, December 13 2010, 2:55PM
“Another one of those "hard working" Eastern European migrants I suppose. Your typical British council-estate scrounger is just far too busy watching Jeremy Kyle to have gone to the same lengths to extract all that money from Mr. Varley. Jevgenij sounds like such a fine and upstanding Lithuanian citizen, just the sort we want coming to our country and enriching us with their presence.
I wonder what poor Mr. Varley has to say about the benefits of a "multi-cultural" Britain now ?”
by The Real Victoria,, Brough
Monday, December 13 2010, 12:29PM
“Actually Sarah that wasn't me, I have an imposter! I received 10 of my parcels on Saturday, nothing on Sunday and nothing so far today and as for wrapping them already I'm not that organised!.
I just did some more online shopping, used the fasted delivery possible but knowing my luck it'll snow again lol”
by Mark, my words
Monday, December 13 2010, 1:52AM
“You send all the 'bloody forriners' back, and you're kicking out probably half of the professional footballers, countless actors and musicians and who knows how many foreign students who pay an absolute fortune to study in British universities.
And tourists.”
by Ste, Hull
Monday, December 13 2010, 12:50AM
“In Walters world people like this would be "sent back home" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Beharry”
by Ste, Hull
Monday, December 13 2010, 12:10AM
“Walter cracks me up the most. "I have a Romanian friend - shes a doc". In one sentence he name drops about having a doctor for a friend and also effectively uses the old excuse of "I cant be racist/homphobic ive got a black/brown/asian/gay/ friend"”
by Mark, my words
Sunday, December 12 2010, 11:50PM
“Nick, sadly these xenophobic morons are the ones that shout loudest and that's how false rumours start. Whenever anyone says something about asylum seekers/immigrants/illegal immigrants/muslims (which they all seem to cram into one collective demographic) I switch off because they are nearly always misinformed idiots who just repeat the right-wing tabloids parrot fashion. Especially when they start with 'apparently...'”