Learn from your mistake now or you will end up in prison and ruin your life forever.

Those were the words of Chief Magistrate Ajmal Gulab Khan as he handed down a non custodial sentence to a 20 and 17 year old who pleaded guilty to robbery with violence.

20 year old Sunia Cama and the 17 year assaulted and robbed the complainant at Sukuna Park after they found him drunk and sleeping on a park bench. They woke him up, assaulted him and made off with his canvass, mobile phone and cash.

Cama was also charged in a separate case for assault and damaging property and has four previous convictions.

However, taking into account their age and their guilty plea, Magistrate Khan stressed that though such crimes are on the rise a custodial sentence will not provide rehabilitation for the duo.

He stressed that their young age does not give them the license to commit serious offences and warned that they must never return to court.

The two have been bound over at a sum of $200 for 12 months and face immediate imprisonment if they re-offend within that time.