Gemini, 17, ambushes a woman, slashing her with a knife and knocking off her glasses and hearing aid

Teenage twins armed with a knife ambushed and attacked a mother after inviting her home. The exact motives behind the attack are unclear, Leicester Crown Court heard on Wednesday, but 17-year-old twins Mark and Millie Wimperis invited their victim to their home in Caldecote Road, Braunstone, Leicester, after exchanging messages with the woman’s daughter.

CCTV footage from a neighbour’s home showed the moment the woman arrived in her car and knocked on the twins’ front door, only to be punched in the face by Mark as soon as the door was opened. She was punched and punched repeatedly by Mark and Millie, causing her glasses and hearing aid to fall to the ground.

She suffered a broken little finger in the attack and was also slashed with a knife at one point by one of the twins, causing a wound to the center of her back. Neighbors rushed to intervene and the woman got back into her car and drove away, but later returned to the twins’ home to retrieve her glasses and hearing aid.

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After she got out of the car to search for the items, the twins threw glass ornaments and other items from an upstairs window, one of which hit her in the head. Mark then went out into the front garden with a knife in his hand and she ran off again and called Leicestershire Police.

The victim’s injuries included a knife wound to his back, a cut to his elbow, a black eye, bruises and swelling elsewhere on his face, wrist and arm, a chipped tooth and a split lip. The court heard she also suffered psychological damage, becoming afraid to go outside.

After the incident on Friday July 7 last year, Millie texted a friend saying: ‘I cut her back and she was bleeding profusely. I wish I had killed her.”

Vasanti Vaitha, representing the twins who are both now 18 and pleaded guilty to actual bodily harm, told the judge, Recorder Thomas Moran, that she would ask him to make a community order or suspend any prison terms. The judge told him: “Right now I’m thinking they’re both going to jail.”

But Ms Vaitha told the judge that both twins went to a special school for children with emotional or behavioral difficulties and that Mark Wimperis had been without support or medication for ADHD since he left school when he was 16. She said he was “significantly immature”.

She said: “A custodial sentence would do more harm than good. Help is needed for him in the community to put him on the narrowest path.”

She said Millie Wimperis was receiving carer’s allowance for looking after her grandmother, helping her on a daily basis. She said neither of the twins had problems with drink or drugs.

Sentencing the twins, the judge said: ‘The context of all this is not entirely clear. You invited her to come, but clearly not for peace talks, but with problems in mind.

“She is innocent of what has happened since she knocked on the door – she was punched and kicked while she was defenseless. He lost his hearing aid and glasses.

“She left but was forced to come back and when she came back ornaments were thrown at her and one hit her in the head. You, Mark Wimperis, were waving a knife around.”

He said he could suspend the jail terms in both cases because of Mark’s ADHD and young age and because of Millie’s young age and the fact that she did not pose a risk to the public and the impact she would have she had the prison on her grandmother.

Mark Wimperis received a 12-month sentence suspended for 18 months with 150 hours of unpaid work, while his sister received a nine-month sentence suspended for 18 months with 120 hours of unpaid work. They will each have to pay £500 in compensation to their victim and have been given a restraining order not to contact her for the next 10 years.