A BARMAID faces jail for robbing a young woman.

Carrie White, 19, of Vineyard Street, Colchester, told Deni Neill: “Give me your phone or I will hurt you”.

White snatched the £500 iPhone when she got off a train at Hythe railway station.

It took a jury two hours to find White guilty of robbery after a four-day trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.

Her accomplice, David Learmonth, 25, of Vineyard Street, Colchester, was found guilty of theft.

Recorder Neil Garnham told the pair: “I make it clear all sentencing options are open. My starting point with Miss White will be a prison sentence.” Learmouth insulted jurors as they left the court and White shouted at the press bench not to publish the case.

They were bailed ahead of sentencing next month.

The incident took place in December on a train between Colchester Town and the Hythe.

The jury was shown CCTV showing White snatching the phone from Miss Neill, 20.

White and part-time gardener Learmonth, 25, got off the train at the Hythe. Miss Neill got off at Great Bentley and called police when she got home.

White and Learmonth told jurors they agreed to swap phones with Miss Neill.

Giving evidence by video link, Miss Neill, who knewWhite from their days at Colne Community School, in Brightlingsea, said: “As the train was nearly getting to Hythe, they stood in front of me and the girl said: ‘Give me your phone or I will hurt you’.

“I handed her my phone because I was scared and didn’t want to get hurt.”

“A couple of people got on and I got really scared and started crying.”

White, who works at the Yew Tree pub, in Great Horkesley, wept in the dock after she was found guilty.

The court heard her sentence could more stringent because she is in breach of a four-month suspended prison sentence, imposed in June last year after she was found guilty of carrying a knife.