Brave daughter of wealthy CEO refused to open safe for armed yobs who dragged her by hair in gunpoint raid on £2.5m home

A BRAVE CEO's girl refused to unfastened the harmless for equipped thugs who dragged her by her hairsbreadth successful a terrifying gunpoint raid.

Emily Aitchison and her mum Kerry were attacked by the robbers posing arsenic cops astatine their £2.5million location successful Sandbanks.

Ashley Fulton and henchman Aaron Evans burst into the luxury spot and bound Kerry, 55, by her hands and feet.

When girl Emily arrived home, the equipped robbers dragged her astir by her hair and threatened to pain her with an iron.

They besides chillingly warned the property cause they would sprout her successful beforehand of Kerry unless she opened the family's safe.

But brave Emily refused to comply with the thugs' demands and wrongly entered the codification twice.

She past caused the intruders to fly aft revealing putting it successful incorrectly a 3rd clip would trigger an alarm.

Fulton, 42, has present been jailed for beingness with a minimum of 9 years and 192 days for robbery, possession of an imitation firearm and a drawstring of fraud offences.

Accomplice Evans, besides 42, was handed a 12 twelvemonth jailhouse word for robbery and possession of an imitation firearm.

Bournemouth Crown Court heard the horror unfolded connected February 21 erstwhile the brace broke into the location successful Poole.

Both Kerry and Emily were locked successful the toilet arsenic the robbers escaped with much than £200,000 of luxury watches, decorator handbags, jewellery, currency and their mobile phones.

But the bungling criminals near down a way of mistakes that enabled police to drawback them.

Officers discovered their getaway car, which was caught connected CCTV, was registered to Fulton's address.

When they searched the vehicle, constabulary recovered DNA connected vapes near wrong matched DNA recovered wrong the ransacked property.

Phone records showed Fulton had Googled the nonstop uncommon exemplary of Patek Philippe ticker they had stolen conscionable 2 hours aft the raid.

He had besides made online orders for constabulary ID wallets and lanyards that the brace utilized to instrumentality their mode into the Aitchison house.

Physio and idiosyncratic trainer Kerry, whose hubby Mark is CEO of attraction location operators the Colten Group, told the tribunal however the robbery had affected her and Emily.

She said: "Home should consciousness a harmless place, a sanctuary, a haven. For maine it's a crime country wherever I thought myself and my girl would beryllium killed.

"I americium a specified shadiness of my erstwhile aforesaid due to the fact that of this convulsive intrusion.

"Gone is the positive, vibrant outgoing pistillate and successful her spot is idiosyncratic I don't recognise."

Emily meantime was incapable to permission the location for six weeks and cried each time for a period pursuing the horror.

Fulton was arrested astatine a edifice next to Heathrow Airport connected May 14, 2023, with his spouse Lacey Langton.

She was antecedently jailed for 14 months aft fraudulently obtaining a passport for her crook person nether a mendacious sanction truthful they could fly to Morocco.

Det Insp Shaun Inkpen said: "This was an highly distressing incidental wherever the victims were enactment done a terrifying ordeal wrong their ain home.

"I would similar to explicit my acknowledgment to them some arsenic they person displayed immense courageousness and bravery passim our investigation."