A GIRL who robbed a woman of £7 at knifepoint is also said to have told another woman she would burn down a hairdressing salon with her inside it.
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been remanded in custody for a sentencing hearing on June 13.
She has pleaded guilty to 11 charges, including robbery, witness intimidation, possession of knives and criminal damage. She also faces a tenth charge, that of assault by beating.
All of the charges relate to a five week period between March 13 and April 18 this year.
According to one charge, to which the Devizes girl pleaded guilty, she threatened to burn down a Salisbury hair salon with the owner still inside. A month later, on April 18, she robbed a woman of £7 at the point of a kitchen knife.
The full list of charges faced by the girl is as follows:
- March 13, 2019: Damaged Elm Church wall, Salisbury
- March 13, 2019: Intimidating two witnesses "intending thereby to cause the investigation to be obstructed, perverted or interfered with"
- March 27, 2019: Threatening a witness
- March 27, 2019: Threatening a woman "that you would burn down a hair dressing salon with her inside it belonging to her, intending that she would fear that the threat would be carried out"
- March 27, 2019: Sent text messages conveying false information to a woman with the purpose of causing distress or anxiety
- March 29, 2019: Assaulting an emergency worker in Melksham
- April 4, 2019: Assaulted a woman by beating in Devizes
- April 5, 2019: Damaged an unmarked police car in Devizes
- April 10, 2019: Damaged a hair salon window in Salisbury
- April 10, 2019: Possession of a bladed article (scissors)
- April 18, 2019: Robbery in Devizes
- April 18, 2019: Possession of bladed article in New Park Street, Devizes (kitchen knife)
She is due to appear before Salisbury Magistrates' Court on June 13.
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