Judge shocked by knife-wielding teens (From Stroud News and Journal)

Judge shocked by knife-wielding teens

A PAIR of 16-year-old tearaways who mugged two terrified schoolboys at knifepoint shocked a judge with their appalling criminal records.

Long-serving Gloucester Crown Court judge Jamie Tabor QC said the pair - who sprang on the boys as they walked home from school in Stonehouse - had some of the longest records he had ever seen.

One asked for 65 further offences - including two burglaries and more than 50 petty crimes like stealing from cars - to betaken into consideration.

The other boy's record stretched back to 2001 and included arson common assault, actual bodily harm, and possession of an offensive weapon.

Both had pleaded guilty to robbing the two boys - aged 14 and 15 - on January 5 this year.

They received detention orders - one for 18 months, the other for two years in court on Wednesday.

The defendants stole £3 from one boy and £1 and a mobile phone from the other.

The Crown did not asserted which defendant held the knife.

Judge Tabor branded them cowards.

"You have some of the worst records of young men who come before me that Ihave ever seen," he added.

Neither defendant can be named.