A teenager robbed a man on a busy street and threated to stab him with a "shiv", a court has heard. Naltom Teklemariam - who had turned 18 the day before he carried out the "brazen" robbery - approached the man in the middle of Llanelli asking for cannabis before demanding money and the victim's phone.
Swansea Crown Court heard that at the time of the robbery the teen was electronically tagged having recently been released from a sentence of detention for a previous attempted street robbery in Swansea.
The court heard that when the victim of the Llanelli robbery gave a description of his attacker to police, one of the things he mentioned was the teenager's "wannabe London gangster accent". Teklemariam's barrister told the court his client had experienced a "difficult background".
