A TRIO of armed thugs who attacked the brothers of Premier League stars Trent Alexander-Arnold and Marcus Rashford in a terrifying raid have been jailed.
Tariq Dervan, Romario Harmer and Talleko Lemonious attacked Dane Rashford and Tyler Alexander-Arnold at a Manchester café.
Tyler – brother of Liverpool star Trent – was smacked in the head with a baseball bat so hard the handle broke off.
While Man Utd ace Marcus’ brother Dane “feared for his life” after a shotgun was pointed at his face.
The masked raiders then made off with a £70,000 Range Rover and jewellery including a £20,000 Rolex.
Both men were struck to the head with the bat and needed stitches after the raid, Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester was told.
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Tariq Dervan, 22, Romario Harmer, 21 and Talleko Lemonious, 28, had denied involvement.
But after a trial in January each of them was convicted by a jury of five counts of robbery and three counts of possession of an offensive weapon.
Passing sentence, Mr Recorder Peter Horgan said: “This was clearly a brazen and planned robbery in broad daylight.”
Dervan, from Staffordshire, was jailed for five-and-a-half years; and Harmer, from Old Trafford, Manchester, for four years.
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Lemonious, from Wythenshawe, was also sentenced for possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition linked to an unrelated crime.
He was jailed for 18 years in total.
Earlier, Stephen McNally, prosecuting, told the court the victims had been having breakfast with three other friends at the Little Rock Caribbean Café in Moss Side, Manchester, on the morning of January 12, 2019.
They intended to drive to Brighton to watch a Liverpool football match later that day.
But all five were robbed after the trio burst in shouting “get your watches off”, as café staff fled in terror.
The robbers fled in the Range Rover – but it was fitted with a tracker and the trio were arrested by police an hour later at a house around two miles away in Fallowfield, south Manchester.
At the house, police found items stolen in the robbery, including watches and wallets, along with ski masks.
The sawn-off shotgun was found hidden in a nearby bush which had Harmer’s DNA on.
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