He recalled the weapon used by Burton was very powerful and praised firearms officers and negotiating teams who “trained for scenarios like this on a regular basis”.
Burton and Turner, who were drunk and high on drugs, initially kept a delivery driver prisoner in a lift for two hours after claiming their takeaway was late and cold.
They had ordered food at about 03:00 on 27 November last year but when the driver arrived on the eighth floor of the flats they placed a coffee table across the lift door to trap him inside.
Burton was jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to attempting to cause grievous bodily harm and possessing a firearm without a certificate.
Sentencing them at Luton Crown Court in October, Judge David Farrell KC said: "It was an appalling and terrifying incident.
Supt Ashdown said after a decade of working with the Channel 4 TV programme, “you become familiar with the camera teams and it becomes second nature to walk past and ignore them”.
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He recalled the weapon used by Burton was very powerful and praised firearms officers and negotiating teams who “trained for scenarios like this on a regular basis”.
Burton and Turner, who were drunk and high on drugs, initially kept a delivery driver prisoner in a lift for two hours after claiming their takeaway was late and cold.
They had ordered food at about 03:00 on 27 November last year but when the driver arrived on the eighth floor of the flats they placed a coffee table across the lift door to trap him inside.
Burton was jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to attempting to cause grievous bodily harm and possessing a firearm without a certificate.
Sentencing them at Luton Crown Court in October, Judge David Farrell KC said: "It was an appalling and terrifying incident.
Supt Ashdown said after a decade of working with the Channel 4 TV programme, “you become familiar with the camera teams and it becomes second nature to walk past and ignore them”.
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