A man who tried to snatch a five-year-old boy from Hull Fair has been jailed for four and a half years.
Daniel Banasik, 28, grabbed the child while the little boy was holding his mother's hand. Banasik was seen to signal to a friend seconds before he tried to grab the child.
Banasik was given the jail sentence at Hull Crown Court this morning after a jury took just 50 minutes to convict him of attempted child abduction. The honorary Recorder of Hull and the East Riding Judge Michael Mettyear said: "It is not possible to be sure what would have happened to the boy had the attempt to abduct him been successful but I'm sure that the intention was to do him serious harm in one way or another, at the least the permanent removal of him from his family."
Daniel Banasik, 28, grabbed the child while the little boy was holding his mother's hand. Banasik was seen to signal to a friend seconds before he tried to grab the child.
Banasik was given the jail sentence at Hull Crown Court this morning after a jury took just 50 minutes to convict him of attempted child abduction. The honorary Recorder of Hull and the East Riding Judge Michael Mettyear said: "It is not possible to be sure what would have happened to the boy had the attempt to abduct him been successful but I'm sure that the intention was to do him serious harm in one way or another, at the least the permanent removal of him from his family."
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