Two young persons were convicted after trial of robbery with violence committed against a peer on the first week of school.
The offence involved a premeditated attack on an isolated location where the victim was lured, assaulted, robbed of personal items and marijuana, and left with bleeding feet after being forced to descend metal stairs barefoot.
The court imposed a custodial sentence of three months (two months secure custody followed by one month community supervision) followed by two years probation, finding that the seriousness of the offence, the degree of participation, the intentional and foreseeable harm, and the need for denunciation and accountability warranted custody despite the YCJA preference for non-custodial dispositions.
