Man jailed for robbery of three young men in Bournemouth

Kyzah Bhachu, 19, mugged three young people within hours of each other before being caught at a train station miles away flaunting their possessions.

Bhachu and another unnamed male approached their victims and asked for the time before demanding their belongings and turning violent, Bournemouth Crown Court was told.

Riding Beryl bikes, the pair approached their first victim, aged in his late teens, when he was sat on a bench in Boscombe Chine Gardens.

Boscombe Chine Gardens (Image: NQ)

After striking him around the head “at least three or four times”, and threatening to produce a knife, Bhachu snatched the victim’s Apple headphones and fled on his bike.

Just over an hour later, he issued similar strikes and threats to another male who was walking with a school friend before leaving with his coat and some cash.

Later that day, and still on bikes, Bhachu and the second male approached a teenager in Kings Park Drive near Vitality Stadium.

It was not until the pair made off with his phone that the teenager realised he had been stabbed in the leg.

He told the court how he had been left “shaken up” by the incident, and it may have impacted the results of his A Level exams which he was sitting at the time.

The defendant, of Belvue Road in Northolt, appeared in Bournemouth Crown Court on Wednesday, August 9, to be sentenced for three robberies, which occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, February 4, 2021, and possession of the blade on Friday, February 5, 2021. He pleaded guilty to the four offences.

Mitigating, Ellie Sheahan described Bhachu’s unstable upbringing and childhood trauma that had a “significant impact” on his behaviour, adding he had not offended since the incident.

Ms Sheahan said: “He is a self-motivated young man keen to move away from the background he had. He clearly now has a stable lifestyle and support around him.”

Judge Evans KC noted that the mitigation had a “substantial effect” on sentencing and recognised that Bhachu had been “severely affected” by his childhood trauma.

The defendant, who was 17 at the time of the offences, was sentenced to 22 months in a young offender’s institution.