A PAIR of youths have been warned they could be jailed after admitting a charge of robbery.
Luke Jackel and Jake Bell pleaded guilty to taking cash, tobacco and a kitchen knife during the offence on Friday September 17 last year.
The pair, both aged 20, had been accused of aggravated burglary and had been due to face trial by jury at Swindon crown court on the allegation.
It was said that they took the items after entering a property on Devizes Road, Wroughton, as trespassers while armed with a lock knife.
Jackel, of Tavistock Road, Park North, and Bell, of The Circle, Pinehurst, both pleaded not guilty to aggravated burglary.
And prosecutors accepted their plea to the alternative charge of robbery meaning a trial will not be necessary.
The two defendants, who appeared individually before the court because Bell was late attending, were released on conditional bail.
Their cases were adjourned to Wednesday February 23 and the court ordered the probation service compile pre-sentence reports on them.
Judge Douglas Field told Jackel: “The fact that you are being bailed shouldn’t be taken as any sort of indication of the type of disposal in your case: do you understand that?”
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