‘Bro, give me all your s*** or I will stab you’
A GOLD Coast teenager was still recovering from an electric shock on a train line when he pulled a knife on a teen at a bus stop and demanded his bag.
Rex Arthur Warburton, 19, was wearing a moon boot, a mumu and had an IV in his arm when he demanded the bag because the teen had
“looked” at his girlfriend. Warburton pleaded guilty in the Southport District Court yesterday to one count of armed robbery.
The teenager came into the public eye in late 2018 when he and two friends were given a severe electric shock from an “electricity arc” while sitting on a bride over the train line at Pimpama.
Warburton was in a coma for a month and received electrical burns to 60 per cent of his body.
Crown prosecutor Gary Churchill said Warburton was on an Arundel St with his girlfriend when they came across two other teens.
“He yelled ‘Don’t look at us, why are you looking at my girl’?” Mr Churchill said.
After a short verbal argument Warburton pulled a Swiss Army knife and demanded the teen’s bag.
The court was told Warburton said: “Bro, if you don’t give me all your s***, I will stab you.”
He did agree to give back some items in the bag but not the bank card and wallet.
Judge Catherine Muir sentenced Warburton to 18 months prison which was wholly suspended. She described the circumstances of the incident as “bizarre”.
“It is very much to your credit you have ssought counselling of your own volition,” she said. Judge Muir said it was also to his credit Warburton had written an apology to the victim.