Parents robbed Brighton teenager in savage ammonia attack that left him partially blind

Mum Brooke Brennan, 21, smiled as she and ex-boyfriend Jordan Kelly were jailed today for their callous attack.

Both had pleaded guilty to robbery in relation to the March 10 incident, with Kelly also admitting applying a corrosive fluid with intent and two further robberies.

The pair - who have a three year old son together - appeared at Lewes Crown Court this afternoon.

Kelly snuck up behind victim and sprayed him with corrosive liquid

Prosecutor Daniel Stevenson said: “Joshua Prout left the house shortly before the incident and went to a bus.

“As he was walking a male and a female walked up to him.”

Brennan, of Graffham Close in Brighton, barged into 19-year-old Prout, causing him to turn around.

Kelly, of Lower Chalvington Place, Brighton, then snuck up behind him and sprayed a corrosive fluid in his face, causing immediate pain.

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Victim 'stumbled away' in pain and unable to see

“Prout stumbled away and nearly got struck by a car.

“Unable to see where he was going, Prout entered an adjacent road and Mr Kelly came up to him and pressed an object up against him.”

He demanded the teenager hand over his wallet and phone and tell him his bank card PIN and phone passcode.

Kelly and Brennan then left the scene and tried unsuccessfully to withdraw money with Prout’s bank card at a local store.

The ammonia – which can be highly corrosive – caused severe damage to Prout’s left eye. The court heard that he cannot see properly through it and has been left with visible scarring for life.

'She did not go out with the intent to cause harm'

Kelly’s defence barrister Tom Nicholson Pratt said: “This defendant obviously comes from a pretty dysfunctional family.

“Being exposed to criminality as the norm and seeing violence on a particularly regular basis has really left him with no boundaries in that sense.”

He said that Kelly’s robberies stemmed from his drug and alcohol problems, problems that he is only now getting addressed in prison.