A 19-year-old man who wrestled a woman to the ground as he tried to snatch a mobile phone from her hands on the doorstep of her house has been sentenced to 27 months in jail.
Shrewsbury Crown Court heard on Thursday how Antonio Lupu of Stonedale, Telford had responded to an advertisement on Facebook Marketplace to buy a second-hand phone from Charlotte Wooley, a resident of Glover's Way in Wellington, Shropshire.
He said Mrs Wooley returned inside to get her own phone, which contained a picture of the battery from the mobile phone that was for sale, and she stood on the doorstep with both phones in her hands. "They started to wrestle. She began to lose the grip as the defendant tried to take the phone and run away. She then fell over the front doorstep, and was dragged over it with the defendant.He said Mrs Wooley had retained both phones and immediately called both her husband and police.
Lupu was later picked up at Birmingham Airport, although Mr Davenport conceded that there was"no evidence he was trying to leave the country" to escape justice.
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