TWO teenagers are behind bars today, three years after mugging a Sheffield pensioner who later died.
Joshua Gebbie, aged 17, and Fay Robinson, 18, both pleaded guilty to the robbery and manslaughter of 87-year-old Lily Finlay in 2006.
They targeted the frail but lively pensioner as she walked through Sharrow to her local pub on London Road for her weekly drink with a friend.
Lily, who walked with a stick, broke her hip when she fell to the ground after her handbag was yanked from her shoulder. She died 10 weeks later in hospital after developing a serious chest infection.
Gebbie, of Beever Street, Goldthorpe, Barnsley, admitted grabbing Lily's bag, and Robinson, of Atlantic Road, Lowedges, was sentenced on the grounds of joint enterprise in that she knew Gebbie had planned to rob a victim that night and went along with it.
The pair were prosecuted only after Robinson confessed to her part in the robbery during an inquest into Mrs Finlay's death a year after the tragedy.
She said she knew of Gebbie's plan, saw him grab Mrs Finlay's handbag, and saw the OAP fall to the ground.
Gebbie was given a four-year detention and training order and Robinson got a 12-month order.
Sheffield Crown Court heard the pair - ex boyfriend and girlfriend, who have since split up - have a two-year-old daughter together, who was conceived a month after the robbery.
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