10:30am Monday 15th March 2010
A TEENAGER with a history of violence will spend eight months behind bars after punching a dog-walking boy in the face and taking his phone.
Edward Williams, aged 18, was sentenced at Warrington Crown Court on Friday after he attacked a youth, robbing his phone and searching him for money on October 4.
Victim Ryan Bastow had returned home after a party when he decided to walk his dog, the court heard.
Williams, of Lewis Avenue, Dallam approached Mr Bastow and asked him for a cigarette. Receiving an answer of ‘no’, the defendant, who was 17 at the time of the robbery, became aggressive and pushed Mr Bastow into a parked car, according to prosecution barrister Lewis Jones.
He then punched his victim in the face and stole his phone before running off. Williams, who has three previous convictions for assault with the first coming aged just 14, was chased by the victim’s father and was later arrested at his home address in Dallam.
When sentencing Williams to 16 months in a youth offenders institution, Judge David Hale said: “You have a general yobbishness about you and this was a yobbish, violent and totally unecessary attack. A person is entitled to walk home without that fear of attack.”
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