Two teenage boys who robbed a woman of her car at knifepoint have been banned from a city centre and given a curfew.
The pair, aged 17 and 15, who can’t be named for legal reasons, were caught by officers in North Bank, Crowland.
They wore face coverings when approaching a 31-year-old woman in Peterborough and demanded the keys to her Audi parked in St Johns Street at 11.30pm on November 23 last year.
One of the boys held a knife to their victim’s stomach and they also snatched her mobile phone.
Her handbag, which was in the car, was later found in the garden of a pub in Grove Street.
CCTV footage showed the Audi pull up outside the pub before the two teens got out and thew the bag over a fence before getting back in the car and driving off.
Police came across the stolen car on the A47 near the Eye roundabout just after 1am. They signalled for it to pull over, but it made off before the duo were caught about 30 minutes later in North Bank.
They admitted a charge of robbery last year. The older boy was found guilty of being in possession of a knife following a trial at Peterborough Youth Court in January.
They both appeared at Cambridge Crown Court earlier this month and were given rehabilitation orders for two-and-a-half years of intensive supervision. They were tagged and banned from Peterborough city centre for three months.
