TWO masked men who smashed their way into a housing estate home and robbed the occupant at gunpoint have been jailed for a total of 16 years. One of them was a former solider whose life had been blighted by a colleague dying on a training exercise. The terrifying ordeal happened on The Nightingales in Newbury and the bloodied victim handed over £1,000, Reading Crown Court was told. At a previous hearing Charles Ward-Jackson prosecuting, said the victim was Oliver Street who lived at Howarth Court. On the morning of Sunday, February 25, he was in bed with his girlfriend, Lauren Goddard, when th…
