A vulnerable brittle bone sufferer was left terrified teenagers would use a cricket bat to beat him after they targeted and robbed him in December last year.

Kaial Hyde, of Pankhurst Road in Walton, was sentenced with his 17-year-old friend George Willis, also from Walton, at Guildford Crown Court on Monday, July 2, having pleaded guilty to robbery.

The pair plotted to rob Seth Barton, a teenager with type one brittle bone disease, on December 4, 2011, the court heard.

The student, described as a gentle young man, was at his friend’s grandmother’s Hersham home when Hyde and Willis turned up uninvited with two other friends, who had called ahead.

When those friends left, they executed their plan in the summer house and said to Mr Barton: “We are here to rob you.”

Hyde picked up scissors and started playing with them, while Willis picked up a cricket bat and started spinning it on the ground, the court heard.

Mr Barton told them he could not afford to get hurt, at which point Willis said he knew about his brittle bone disease and asked him to turn out his pockets.

Willis kept his hand behind him, in his waist band, which made Mr Barton believe he had a knife, the court heard.

They took £35 wages off of Mr Barton, but allowed him to keep his iPhone, before sending his friend, who has autism, in to his grandmother’s house to find more for them to steal.

Prosecutor K Hirst told the court: “He said he was terrified at this point.”

Mr Barton was also forced to cower behind a pub bar and be smuggled out to a taxi on December 9, when Willis turned up at a 21st birthday party he was at.

The court heard Hyde and Willis both had extremely troubled pasts, with spells in foster care, and were trying to turn their lives around.

Hyde, 20, was handed an 18-month community order with 18 months of supervision, 150 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £300 compensation.

Willis was handed 150 hours’ unpaid work and a 12-month youth rehabilitation order.