A TEENAGER involved in a string of knife and gunpoint robberies in Oxford was last night branded a danger to the public.

Shaquile Bourne showed “little remorse” as he was jailed yesterday.

Recorder Nicholas Cole said his likelihood of reoffending posed “a significant risk to the public of (causing) death or serious injury”.

The 17-year-old, who can be named after the Oxford Mail appealed for reporting restrictions to be lifted, used a knife in two of the attacks and was aided by a man with an imitation handgun in another.

Bourne, of Cowley Road in East Oxford, already has a police warning for carrying a knife at school and is awaiting sentence for swinging a blade at a man who told him to turn his music down while travelling on a bus.

Prosecutor Edward Culver told Oxford Crown Court Bourne’s latest string of offences began at 8pm on January 31 when he stole £100 and a BlackBerry phone from 18-year-old Corey Richards outside Blackbird Leys Youth Centre.

Just 30 minutes later, 20-year-old Declan Davidson was jumped by three men, including Bourne, near Windrush Tower.

Mr Davidson was punched, then Bourne pushed a knife into his shoulder, causing a puncture wound. The group took £100 and an iPhone.

While on bail, Bourne robbed American tourist Chelsea Taylor as she walked down Oxford Road in Cowley at 11.25pm on March 27.

The 22-year-old victim said another, unknown, man brandished a handgun. She lost an iPod, phone, keys, wallet, CDs, credit cards and sunglasses. Her mobile was found in Bourne’s hooded top.

Moments later, Andrew Gardner was walking along the same road when Bourne and another man grabbed him from behind.

Bourne held a six-inch kitchen knife to the 20-year-old’s face and “as the knife was pushed into his cheek it broke the skin”.

He said Bourne then struck the victim over the head with the knife’s handle.

The defendant earlier admitted four counts of robbery and having a knife. He was convicted by jurors of having an offensive weapon.

A pre-sentence report said Bourne posed “a high risk of committing further offences” and is a “high risk of causing serious harm to others”.

Alistair Grainger, defending, said his client’s mother was jailed for three years in 2007 and again in 2011 for drugs offences.

Recorder Cole sent him to a young offenders’ institute for four years, with an extended period of licence. He will be released in two years and will then serve five years on licence.

He said: “It’s fair to say you showed little remorse.”