VICTIM LEFT BAREFOOT BY SMILING ROBBER

He walked off with trainers leaving woman ‘shaking and distressed’

Two-year jail term for thug who’d also assaulted ex:

AWOMAN was left standing in the street in her bare feet after her trainers were stolen from her as she wore them.

A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court heard Nathan Pickett followed Ms Jones towards the beach in Harlech and then walked up to her and demanded her mobile phone, her bank cards and her trainers.

“She removed the white pair of Nike trainers, valued at £60, and handed them to the defendant, who then walked away smiling,” said prosecuting barrister Ember Wong.

She said Ms Jones was left “shaking and distressed” by the incident.

Pickett, 20, of Nimrod Street, Liverpool, admitted a charge of robbery.

The court heard Pickett was in breach of a community order imposed last September for assaulting a former partner, whom he had punched and headbutted.

Defence counsel Jonathan Austin said Pickett had shown a lack of maturity in behaving in this way.

“He had found himself away from his home area and had got involved in drugs,” he said.

Mr Austin said that Pickett had pleaded guilty and suggested that the jail term could be suspended.

But, jailing him for two years for the robbery, Judge Timothy Petts said the offence was too serious to allow suspending the sentence.

“Punishment can only be achieved by an immediate custodial sentence,” he said.

Pickett was jailed for 20 days for the breach of the Community Order, and this must be served consecutively.

The judge also made a 10-year restraining order banning Pickett from contacting Ms Jones or entering the Glan Gors area of Harlech.