A PSYCHOPATHIC teenage girl who targeted students in a campaign of violent street robberies, had her sentence substantially cut at London's Criminal Appeal Court yesterday.

The 17-year-old, who is too young to be named, was described as "a dangerous young woman with an incurable personality disorder and no sense of remorse" after her arrest for four attacks on young women in Sunderland.

But Judge Neil Denison QC yesterday cut her three-year jail sentence - imposed at Durham Crown Court after she pleaded guilty to four robberies in January - because of her youth and the unusual circumstances of the case.

The judge told the court how the girl, who was just 16 and resident in a Sunderland children's home at the time of the offences, had begun by beating and robbing two 15-year-old schoolgirls in January, last year.

She then carried out separate attacks on female university students in Sunderland University's campus area the following month.

All her victims were punched and kicked repeatedly by more than one assailant and had clothing, cash and jewellery taken.

The girl was arrested in February when a children's home attendant overheard her boasting about the robberies and informed the police.

Judge Denison, sitting with Mr Justice Jack and Lord Justice Clarke cut her term by a quarter saying it was important when sentencing a person of her age to "leave the end of the sentence in sight".