Radford Armed mugger given 2 years in a young offenders institution (serving only half the sentence)!

TWO masked robbers have been locked up for mugging a motorist.

Jordan Shardlow pulled out a knife with a six-inch blade and threatened Ouzair Malik, while accomplice Fabio Agostinho got into his car.

Mr Malikhad been out and was getting into the car in Independent Street, Radford, at 3am on March 24.

Agostinho searched the car and the pair stole Mr Malik’s bag, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

Shardlow slapped him in the face & prodded him three or four times with the knife, not injuring him but leaving him in fear.

Shardlow, 18, of Hardy Street, Radford, and Agostinho, also 18, of Lindfield Road, Broxtowe Estate, were arrested and charged with robbery, which they admitted.

Recorder Mark Wall sent them to a young offenders’ institution for two years and four months each.

He said they would serve half their sentences and the rest on licence.

“Your behaviour on this night in March is completely incomprehensible.

“You are two 18-year-old men with no previous convictions. Yet you committed a really serious robbery.”

The judge said the offence was more serious because the weapon was used to prod the victim.

He also said the fact there were two of them, the time the attack took place and the masks were all important.

“This indicates to me there was a degree of planning in what you did,” the judge said. “But I accept the mitigation – that it was a matter of minutes or hours and certainly not a matter of days.”

He said that their age, good character and references, showing there was a different side to their characters, were mitigating factors.

The judge added: “I warn both of you because of the serious aggravating features of the offence, if you would have been older or had previous convictions, the sentence would have been significantly longer.”