A teenager involved in a gang robbery walked free from court after initially being sentenced to time behind bars.
Callum Sedgwick-Dean, aged 19, was sentenced to nine months at a young offenders' institute after setting about a young man and stealing his Apple Airpod earphones outside McDonald's in Telford town centre in an"appalling and abhorrent" incident in broad daylight.But he later called Sedgwick-Dean back into court and re-sentenced him.
The court was told earlier how Sedgwick-Dean and Durante Graham, aged 20, were among a gang of nine young men when the victim was targeted outside McDonald's. The victim said in an impact that he is now nervous about going out and considered changing his haircut out of fear of"retribution" if he were to bump into his attackers again.
He was shown a video and then accepted there had been a theft, but claimed it had been"a joke", and"cynically" insisted that the second victim racially abused him, calling him the N-word."We say that is a total lie," Mr Wallace told the court, insisting Graham was"the ringleader". Their barrister insisted they are"not out and out criminals", but were"very stupid" when they committed the robberies.
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