TEENAGERS who threatened others with a knife and bottle in a robbery at a house in Bolton have been jailed.

Bolton Crown Court heard how Anthony Hughes was spending the evening of May 14 at David Rawson’s home in Thorns Road, Astley Bridge, when, at 1am, two friends arrived with Joshua Fox and Danny Stabler.

The young men went up to Mr Rawson’s bedroom where they continued drinking and chatting.

But Lindsay Thomas, prosecuting, told how the evening turned nasty when Stabler jokingly said: “I’m from Salford and no one messes with me.”

A short time later Fox told his hosts: “I’m having that Playstation 4, it’s leaving with me.”

Mrs Thomas said: “Fox then threatened Mr Hughes with a Budweiser bottle which he had in his hand and pushed Mr Hughes into the windowsill.

“Fox then ripped wires out of the back of the Playstation and at that point Danny Stabler got out a knife.”

But when Fox and Stabler ran down the stairs with the console they realised the front door was locked. Stabler turned on Mr Hughes and Mr Rawson and demanded, “Get the key or I will stab you” with Fox going up to Mr Hughes and asking, “Do you want me to bottle you again?”

As Fox climbed out of a window with the Playstation, Stabler threatened Mr Hughes again, pushing the six-inch bladed knife into his back on two occasions and slightly piercing his skin. Stabler ran off but both he and Fox were arrested nearby.

In a victim impact statement read out in court, Mr Hughes said: “I didn’t know what to do. I was scared of them because they had weapons.”

Stabler, aged 18, of Kersal Avenue, Little Hulton, and Fox, also 18, of Greenwood Avenue, Walkden, both pleaded guilty to robbery. In addition, Stabler admitted possessing a knife.

John Kennerley, defending Stabler, said the teenager has no previous convictions.

“It is his first experience of a court. It has been a sobering and unpleasant experience for him,” he said.

He added that the robbery was “totally out of character” for Stabler, who has mental health difficulties.

“On the day of this incident he had not taken his medication and would not ordinarily have drunk alcohol,” he said. “He has very little recollection of this incident.”

Kate Hammond, defending Fox, said: “He was under the influence of others who led him to behave in this ridiculous, and you could say, stupid fashion.

“He has no proper explanation for it apart from this was some sort of bravado.”

Stabler was sentenced to 30 months and Fox to 26 months in a young offenders’ institution.