JUDGE'S CONCERN AT CARE OF OFFENDER

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A Crown Court judge has demanded the director of North Lincolnshire Council's social services attends court, to explain the lack of community care offered to a disabled defendant. Lee Graham (19), who is profoundly deaf and has an IQ of 69, burgled the home of a disabled woman in Lilac Avenue, Scunthorpe, on the evening of May 25. Graham gained entry to the house and, once inside, picked up a knife, which he lifted to shoulder height. The plucky victim, who suffers from arthritis of her hands, spine and knees, however, took hold of the intruder. Jeremy Evans, prosecuting at Grimsby Crown Court, said: "There was a struggle and she grabbed him by the ear and his hearing aid was dislodged. That was left at the scene," Mr Evans said. The woman shouted for her daughter and she too struggled with Graham. During the course of that struggle he punched her on arm," he said. Graham was identified by DNA found on his hearing aid. He was later interviewed in the presence of an appropriate adult and a sign language interpreter. He made full admissions to police, telling officers he had not intended to harm anyone and he had entered the house in order to get money to put into fruit machines.