Teenage girls sent to prison after imitation gun attack in Croydon (From Croydon Guardian)

Teenage girls sent to prison after imitation gun attack in Croydon

9:51am Monday 10th October 2005 in

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Three teenage girls have been sent to prison after using an imitation gun in a robbery.

Croydon Crown Court heard how Billie Jane Leslie, 17, Simone Minott, 17, and Kerri Leyanne Storer, 18, who were living at the Lansdowne Road YMCA at the time of their arrest, robbed three girls in George Street as they made their way home from a night out at the Cartoon.

Judge Simon Pratt lifted reporting restrictions preventing the 17-year-olds from being named as he sentenced Leslie to five years, and Storer and Minott to a four-year jail term last Friday.

Leslie had pleaded guilty to robbery and possessing an imitation firearm, but Minott and Storer were found guilty on September 2 following a five-day trial.

Detective Sergeant Bob Gould, from South Norwood robbery squad, said: "This was an excellent result. The sentencing reflects the crimes committed. "