A TEENAGE robber who carried on offending after being given two chances by a judge is finally behind bars.

Liam Carter and a friend held a knife to their victim and threatened to kill him as they took his phone in a terrifying attack.

But a few weeks after being spared prison in May the 18-year-old assaulted another man, before having a new sentence imposed for failing to comply with the first one.

And he repeatedly breached a curfew which was imposed, and on two of the occasions he was out late he was caught offending.

The first time he was found with a stolen £4,200 motorbike then days later he smashed the window of a town centre dentist.

Judge Tim Mousley QC, sitting at Swindon Crown Court, said he had run out of chances and jailed him for 15 months.

Simon Burrett, prosecuting, said Carter was still 17 when he was put on the first youth rehabilitation order in May.

He said he and Sharisse Page had taken an acquaintance to a room following a party and threatened him.

Carter told the girl to get a knife which they used to threaten him before taking his mobile phone from him.

On Thursday, June 16, he said the teenager punched another man at a street gathering in East Wichel, though he wasn’t convicted of it until much later.

In late October he was back before the judge for failing to comply with the earlier order and given another chance.

A curfew was imposed which he first broke on November 3 when he was out late and found a motorbike which had been stolen days earlier, but he said he had bought for £50.

Two days later he was in Farnsby Street when residents saw him smash a window of Brunel Dental Practice.

Sam Arif, defending, said her client was sorry for what he had done and asked for the court to give him one last chance.

Passing sentence the judge said: “You have been committing offences for something like two years now.

“You on occasion have expressed remorse and I accept that and expressed a desire to change your ways.

“The fact is now that you have run out of chances and immediate custody is inevitable.”

Page, of Holbein Court, Grange Park, was initially put on a one year suspended sentence for her role in the attack.

But after she repeatedly failed to attend appointments she was brought back before a judge and the jail term was activated.