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.

Now Judge Tim Mousley QC, sitting at Swindon Crown Court, has 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 then 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 East Wichel, though e 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 bought for £50.

Two days later he was in Farnsby Street in the early when local 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 “Less than six months ago I sentenced you for a serious offence of robbery which you committed with Sharisse Page and which involved the use of a knife.

“I gave you a chance on that occasion by imposing a youth rehabilitation order.

“Your response to that order was inconsistent, then as recently as October 20 this year you came back in front of me and I gave you another chance.

“I was hesitant of that at that time and you have not taken that chance. That was at a point when you were in the middle of a spree of offending in various ways.

“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.

ends 8/12/16