A PAIR of teenagers who robbed a man of his mobile phone at knifepoint have walked free from court.

Sharisse Page, 18, and a 17-year-old lad had been drinking when they pinned their victim to a chair and threatened to kill him.

But after hearing they had both served time inside on remand awaiting sentence a judge at Swindon Crown Court decided not to impose immediate jail terms.

Colin Meeke, prosecuting, said the pair had been with friends, including a 20-year-old on Saturday, December 5, last year.

"In due course, when the victim was about to leave, the male defendant confronted him and told him to 'Sit down for a bit, we need a chat'," he said.

"He demanded to know what happened last year: 'We need to know'. The victim had stood trial for a serious offence a year before and been acquitted.

"But the defendant was not prepared to accept that verdict and not prepared to accept that he did not commit that offence.

"He did not press that much further but them moved in to demand the phone. He told Miss Page 'Go and get the knife'.

"She came back with a knife and held the blade towards the victim and said 'You better start telling the truth and give him he phone or he's going to stab you'.

"The boy demanded the phone, making thrusting motions towards him saying he was going to kill him. The victim handed over the phone fairly quickly."

He then took the SIM card out of the handset and said 'the phone's mine now,' as he returned the card.

After making the victim stand up he told him he was going to punch him, then struck him to the head several times.

Page, of Holbein Court, Grange Park, and the boy, from the Parks, both pleaded guilty to robbery.

The court heard each had a long history of crime with Page having numerous previous convictions including arson and assault.

Rob Ross, representing her, said: "You can read Sharisse Page's record: how many 18-year-old girls have 24 convictions on their record?"

He said both defendants had been failed since the day they were born and after time in care had turned to crime.

"She has got to the age of 18 with things happening to her which we wouldn't wish on our worst enemy," he said.

She was wandering the streets at the age of seven, he said, and being left with people for weeks on end when she was 10.

He said she had been in a secure training unit for four weeks after breaching her bail, he said, and it had opened her eyes to what her future could look like.

Urging the court to suspend any jail term he said would be sent to an adult jail if she breached the terms of it.

Alex Daymond, for the 17-year-old lad, said he had been inside for three months awaiting sentence after he too failed to comply with his bail.

He said he had been raised with no boundaries and his first time in a young offenders' institution has had a 'sobering impact'.

Judge Tim Mousley QC said that although they both deserved jail terms for what they had done he had to bear in mind that they had spent time inside on remand.

He put the boy on a one-year youth rehabilitation order with intensive supervision and imposed a 12-month jail term suspended for two years on Page.