Leeds student kicked and punched by teenagers who stole his £1,000 iPhone 8 Plus in Burley

Tayyab Ali, 18, carried out the attack with his friend in the Burley area of the city on September 17 last year.

Leeds Crown Court heard the pair approached the victim as he was minding his own business and asked him for the time.

Ali then grabbed the student's iPhone 8 Plus from his hand when he took it out to check.

The court heard the device was worth around £1,000 and the victim pleaded with the pair return it to them as it contained important information.

Ali refused to hand it over and the student offered to take them to a cash machine to withdraw £200 in exchange for the device being returned.

The court heard Ali and his accomplice then walked with the victim to the cash machine.

Ali ordered him not to look at him and stare at the ground as they walked along.

Demands were then made for the phone pin number but the student refused to give it to them.

Ali then held him while the other male struck him to the face.

He was then knocked to the ground where the pair repeatedly kicked him for around a minute before running off.

The victim was not seriously injured.

Both attackers were identified and arrested after being recognised from CCTV footage of the incident.

Ali, of Seaforth Place, Harehills, pleaded guilty to theft and common assault.

Robin Freize, mitigating, said Ali was aged 17 at the time of the incident and had not been in trouble since.

Mr Freize urged Judge Mushtaq Khokhar not to send Ali to custody so he could complete a programme designed to prevent him from re-offending.

He said: "Sending him to youth detention would be damaging and counterproductive."

Ali was sentenced to 13 months in a young offender institution, suspended for 18 months.

He was also made the subject of an electronically-monitored curfew for three months and ordered to complete 15 days of a rehabilitation activity requirement programme.

Ali's co-defendant is to be sentenced before a youth court.