Saturday, August 23, 2008

Jeans mugger facing prison term

A reveller who mugged a stranger for his smart jeans after being turned away from a nightclub has been told he faces a jail sentence.

Phillip Northmore, 25, pushed his victim into bushes and then ordered him to take off his trousers.

After taking the jeans he handed back £60 and a mobile phone to victim Matthew Oakley, 18.

Northmore pleaded guilty at Plymouth Crown Court to robbery. Sentence has been deferred for six months.

Judge Paul Darlow also ordered Northmore to pay his victim £1,000 for the shame and humiliation he caused his victim in the attack. "This case has an added element of humiliation with the young victim being left without his trousers and having to put on somebody else's filthy old ones," the judge told him.

Northmore told police he had drunk 15 pints of beer and rated his level of drunkenness as between six and eight out of ten.

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