Two brothers and a young woman have been jailed for ambushing two people trying to buy drugs.Ezra Williams, 27, received a six-year sentence from Acting Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe. His brother, Ezra Ararat, 25, and Zharrin Simmons, 20, were each sentenced to five years in prison.The sentences are to run concurrently with time spent in custody taken into consideration.They were found guilty in July of two counts of robbery committed on Hermitage Road on August 27 last year.The victims were attacked while trying to purchase cannabis in the Devonshire neighbourhood. Two of the assailants were armed with a knife and a machete.At Supreme Court, Crown counsel Garrett Byrne urged the court to impose sentences of between eight to ten years as a deterrent.Mr Justice Wolfe noted that the victims placed themselves at risk by trying to buy drugs and asked whether that fact reduced the impact of the crime committed against them.Mr Byrne agreed to a degree, but said the robbery carried “aggravated features”, most notably the use of weapons in the attack.“Williams in particular has the worst record of all three defendants, with a number of cases involving violence, weapons and the like. He was also on parole at the time of this offence,” said Mr Byrne.“The community needs to be protected from the defendants who have no remorse and they have not accepted responsibility for their actions.Lawyer Charles Richardson, who appeared for Ezra Ararat, said his client never possessed a weapon during the attack. He called for a sentence of four years.Lawyer Mark Pettingill, who appeared for Simmons, stressed that his client was “trying to get her life back on track”. “She has come to terms with herself and her life,” he said.Williams pleaded with the court for another chance before sentence was passed. But Mr Justice Wolfe said it was time to “turn the spotlight and the mirror” on himself and “put aside the blame game”.“You’re 27, one day you will wake up at 40 and wonder what’s happened to your life. You’re articulate and bright, and not stupid; why you can’t turn that around into something positive I don’t know,” he said.“I have no doubt this offence was quite horrific with quite a few aggravating features,” he added. Justice Wolfe described Williams’ record as “atrocious”.Before passing sentence he said: “At some point you all must take ownership of your behaviour, take personal responsibility for your actions and stop using your past as a crutch. Above all you must stop invoking the victim role,” said Justice Wolfe.He did not agree, however, with the range of sentence called for by the Crown or the call by Mr Pettingill for his client’s sentence to be partially suspended.“I believe you can be redeemed, of course, but you must want to be redeemed and stop finding criminality as an attractive way of life,” he said.The defendants showed no signs of emotion before they were taken out of court by prison officers to be transported back to prison.