Huddersfield knife mugger ‘Brookyln Man’ locked up for 10 years

Jul 4 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

HE was known as The Brooklyn Man.

And he was responsible for a reign of terror in Huddersfield for three months, as he mugged people at knifepoint.

But now he is behind bars and will then face deportation back to his native Jamaica.

Marlon Batticks, 27, has been given a 10-year jail term at Nottingham Crown Court and a warning from a judge that he will stay in prison for an indeterminate time because he poses a tremendous risk to the public.

News of the sentence has delighted detectives in Huddersfield, who were hunting the vicious street mugger for a three-month period late last year.

Many of his victims were students or young people.

Det Con Russ Conlon, of Huddersfield, said: “He is a very nasty piece of work.

“We know he was responsible for a string of nasty street robberies in August, September or October last year. He would pick victims, threaten them with a knife and force them to hand over mobile phones, cash and bank cards.

“He would then use the knife to make them tell him details of their PIN numbers.

“He got the name The Brooklyn Man because of a distinctive sweatshirt he wore bearing that name as a logo. He wore it in a number of the crimes and we also had CCTV images from a bus which captured him wearing the top.

“Hopefully he will now be behind bars for a very long time”.

Batticks, of Hollin Terrace, carried out five robberies in the Leeds Road area, stretching from Deighton to the junction with St Andrew’s Road.