A PROLIFIC teenage criminal who carried out a spate of crimes including robbery, assault, and wielding a knife has been jailed.

Christian Collins was handed a 20-month prison sentence at Oxford Crown Court yesterday for the seven offences, the first committed when he was just 17.

Now 18, Collins, of no fixed abode, faced two counts of common assault, one count of robbery, one count of burglary, two of possession of a bladed article and one of possessing cannabis, all carried out within 12 months.

The first offence, the burglary, took place at Oxford House, Kings End, Bicester between July 18 and 27 of last year, where he broke into a flat and stole £1,430 of goods.

Bailed and awaiting trial he next carried out two assaults on a woman on June 3 this year while in possession of a martial arts weapon known as a Sai.

Four days later police were called to a disturbance at the Banbury Premier Inn, Ermont Way involving Collins who was again out on bail and he was found to be in possession of a lock knife.

A month later on July 15 he carried out his most serious offence for which he was finally remanded in custody, threatening a 15-year old boy at Castle Street, Banbury, by claiming he would cut him before taking his I-Phone.

Collins has numerous prior convictions including for burglary the court heard.

Jailing him, Judge Peter Ross said: "You are a young man whose background is deeply troubled.

"The aggravating features are the fact you were on bail for all bar one of these offences and second your previous convictions."

For the robbery he was given a 16-month prison sentence to run concurrently with two six-month terms for possessing a bladed article and one day for possessing cannabis. He was also given one month each for two counts of common assault to run concurrently with each other but consecutive to the rest. For the burglary he was given three months in prison concurrently.