A teenager will be sentenced next month for a brawl committed when he was just 16.
Jack Mobey, now 18, appeared before Oxford Crown Court on Thursday (October 12), when he pleaded guilty to a single count of affray.
The offence was committed on May 16 last year, when Mobey was still a youth. Another boy, who is 16 and cannot be named for legal reasons, was due to be sentenced at the youth court this week for affray and possession of a knife in public.
Following a request from defence counsel Tamasin Graham, the judge adjourned sentencing for the preparation of a probation service report that will look at alternatives to an immediate jail sentence.
Dealing with the case, Recorder John Bate-Williams said he had seen video footage of the affray described in the prosecution papers when he was preparing for the plea and trial preparation hearing.
“The film shows somebody else wielding a knife,” he said.
Ms Graham, defending, said the video footage showed Mobey ‘acting in excessive self defence – more than was necessary or proportionate’.
Mobey, of no fixed address, was bailed to return to the crown court on November 7 for his sentencing hearing.
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