A KNIFE-WIELDING teen who was locked up for five years for an off-licence robbery was brought back to court to be sentenced for another raid yesterday.
Karl Barker, 19, targeted Victoria Wines off-licence in Jarrow, South Tyneside, on August 28 last year and made off with money from the till while armed with a serrated hunting knife and a butcher's cleaver.
Newcastle Crown Court heard yesterday how, two weeks before that, he tried to rob the Food Plus store in Hebburn, South Tyneside, while armed with a knife.
Prosecutor Christopher Dorman O'Gowan told the court how masked Barker made off empty-handed after shopkeeper Mohammed Mus-taffa waved a stick at him.
Barker, of Douglas Parade, Hebburn, yesterday pleaded guilty to attempted robbery.
Judge John Milford sentenced him to four-and-a-half years in jail for the Hebburn raid, to be served concurrently with the other sentence.
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