General view of North Tyneside magistrates court, North Shields (Image: Newcastle Chronicle)

A convicted robber has been given yet another chance to stay out of jail after he stole a TV sound bar from his own grandad in order to buy drugs. Curtis Telford had been staying with his grandparents in Stakeford, Northumberland , when he decided to ask them for cash.

However, when they refused, the 26-year-old flew into a rage and helped himself to their TV sound bar, a court heard. And, as he made his way out of the house with the stolen good, he assaulted his grandfather by barging passed him and broke a picture frame on the wall, prosecutors said.

Curtis, who has past convictions, including for robbery of a shop at knifepoint and for offences against his grandparents, has now been g

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