During a personal statement delivered at the sentencing hearing at Bristol Crown Court, the victim expressed that the incident had left him feeling “constantly frightened, paranoid, and utterly terrified.”
He remarked that it had transformed him into “a completely different individual.”
“I find myself saying and doing things that are outside my character,” he noted.
“In the past, I was lively, chatty, and sociable, but now I view myself as tense and on edge.”
After an investigation following their arrests, Paul, Samagassi, and Madzou were charged with aggravated burglary.
All three entered guilty pleas to the charges at a prior hearing in August.
On Thursday, Paul, hailing from Barking in London, was sentenced to six years in prison; Samagassi, who has no fixed address, was handed a five-year prison term, while Madzou, also from Barking in London, received a sentence of five and a half years.