Four men who formed part of a gang which raided a holiday camp in Devon with an axe, seriously injuring a member of staff, have been jailed.
The men from Bath and the surrounding areas stole around £10,000 during the axe robbery at Golden Sands Holiday Park in Dawlish Warren in the early hours of 27th August 2013.
Craig Lockyer, 28 from Radstock, Karl Daniels, 35, and Dean Smart, 27 from Bath, admitted robbery. Getaway driver Michael Kelly, 21, admitted conspiracy to burgle.
All four men have been jailed for between three and twelve years.
The masked men waited at the holiday park last August for the staff to put the day’s takings in the safe.
A doorman who tried to fend off the robbers was hit with the an axe as he tried to shield himself behind a washing machine.
He suffered deep cuts on his body and legs from the axe and wounds to his head from a hammer.
Lockyer, from Hillside Close in Radstock, who used the axe, was jailed for 12 years and Daniels, of Wookey, Somerset, was sent to prison for 11 and a half years.
Dean Smart, 27 and of Southlands in Bath, was jailed for eight years and Kelly, 21, of Liddiatt Lane, Bath, was sent to prison for three years and nine months.
Judge Francis Gilbert said: “The most serious aspect of this case is the extreme violence which was used with Lockyer and the axe and by one of the others.”
