Woolworths delivery truck hijacker jailed for seven years after assaulting partner & setting her home alight

A gunman who violently hijacked a supermarket delivery truck after assaulting his partner and setting fire to her home has been jailed for more than seven years. On November 18 last year, Nicholas Brian Green, 27, caused mayhem after a night of drinking at his home in Kenwick, which began with an argument with his on-off partner. After she locked Green out of the house, he smashed the front door in and then grabbed his partner by punching her multiple times in front of their two young children. Arming himself with a knife, Green then issued more threats before his partner, their children and guests fled the Stafford Road home. It was then Green set alight a corner of the kitchen before retrieving a gun from under his bed and fleeing. The gun had been bought some weeks before from an antique dealer. It had been purchased with the barrel welded shut, but Green had drilled it open in an attempt to make it work and had also acquired two rounds of 0.38 ammunition. It was this gun that a delivery driver beginning his shift at Woolworths in Thornlie found pointing at his chin just after 5am. After a wrestle over the firearm, the driver was placed in a chokehold by Green before he ran off. Green sped off in the Hyundai truck along South West Highway. Despite being pursued by multiple police vehicles, Green sped away — on the wrong side of the road, reaching speeds up to 140km/h. When he did stop, it was only to then reverse into one of the police cars. And to point the rifle at two shocked drivers who had pulled over to avoid being smashed into. After he was eventually arrested, Green was charged with a string of offences, including criminal damage, aggravated assault against a woman, making threats while children were present, arson, aggravated armed robbery, stealing a motor vehicle and possessing a gun and ammunition without a license – and while intoxicated. He pleaded guilty to all of them, and in Perth’s District Court, Green was jailed for seven years and eight months. “You embarked on a concerted and extended course of violence,” Judge Mark Herron said. “You physically assaulted your partner and a Woolworths delivery driver unknown to you, threatened to harm your partner … while your young children were present, and threatened innocent members of the public with a rifle. “You drove recklessly at speed and on the incorrect side of the road, into the path of ongoing traffic, putting the lives and safety of innocent members of the public at risk while trying to escape from police.” The court heard Green blamed his rampage on losing his temper after being accused of cheating. “(That) seems to blame your former partner for what happened and shows little insight into the seriousness of your offending,” Judge Herron said. “(You) said you took one of your 20 firearms as you were angry and trying to be Rambo.” Green will have to serve five years and eight months before being eligible for parole.