Islington News: 17-year-old on 7 robbery charges, St John's Way, Elthorne Estate

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Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 28 March 2008

Teen on 7 robbery charges

A 17-YEAR-OLD boy from Archway has been charged with committing seven robberies in the space of three days – one of which left a pensioner with a fractured skull.
The offender is accused of mugging seven lone women between the ages of 17 and 61 in and around St John’s Way and the Elthorne estate, Archway, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday last week.
The fifth person to be attacked was community campaigner Carol Clinton, who was found in a pool of blood outside Caxton House Community Centre at 3.30pm on Tuesday.
Mrs Clinton, whose late husband Alan was Labour leader of Islington Council in the 1990s, has now regained consciousness, but was still being treated at the National Hospital for Neurology in Bloomsbury this week.
The youth appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Saturday and was remanded in custody to appear at Thames Youth Court today (Friday).
He faces further charges of attempted robbery on a 52-year-old woman in St John’s Way on March 13, and of using a stolen credit card in Costcutters in Hornsey Road.

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