A 21-year-old man and a boy of 15 have been locked up for a total of eight years for targeting a vulnerable man in his home and robbing him in his nightclothes.

Caius Hesling and Sevi Conley teamed up with a 16-year-old youth to ransack Warren Bright’s flat in West Dene, Silsden, threatening him with a crowbar and stealing the ring from his finger, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

They took the terrified 43-year-old by taxi to his bank in Keighley to try to force him to withdraw £250.

Hesling, 21, of Drewry Road, Keighley, was jailed for five years. Conley, 15, of North Dean Road, Braithwaite, was sent to a detention centre for three years.

The 16-year-old, also from Keighley, was sentenced to a youth rehabilitation order with supervision for two years, and a three-month curfew.

All three pleaded guilty to the robbery and attempted robbery of Mr Bright on June 30 this year.

Mr Bright, 43, who suffers from anxiety and is on medication, had moved to a new area to escape intimidation and harassment in Keighley, prosecutor John Bull said.

The three defendants forced their way into his property at lunchtime when Mr Bright was still in his pyjamas. Hesling knocked him to the floor and he curled up screaming, later telling police he was “scared witless”.

Mr Bull said Hesling, who had the crowbar, raised it at Mr Bright and told the 16-year-old to watch him while he and Conley ransacked his home.

They put his television set and DVDs into a bag and Conley threatened Mr Bright into handing over his ring.

Mr Bright then changed out of his pyjamas and he and his stolen belongings went by taxi with the defendants to the Santander bank in Keighley.

Mr Bright, who feared he would have a heart attack, said the defendants laughed and joked on the journey to the bank. He mouthed ‘help’ to the cashier and raised the alarm when he was taken to an interview room. All three defendants left but were arrested later that day crossing the Aire Valley trunk road.

The 16-year-old told police they were on their way back to Mr Bright’s home to ‘batter him’ for not getting them the money.

The court was told Hesling wanted to apologise for what he had done and that he was immature for his age. There had been an “element of bravado” to Conley’s actions, the court heard, and he now wants to turn his life around.

The 16-year-old was said to have very limited intellectual abilities and an IQ of 42.uk