A 17-YEAR-old who stabbed another teenager in the buttocks is banned from returning to Colchester.

The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced alongside co-defendant David Monteiro, 22, after a 16-year-old was stabbed near Britannia car park.

He received a year-long youth rehabilitation order with intense supervision having admitted, and being convicted of, wounding and possession of a bladed article.

Monteiro, of Brunswick Street, London, was also convicted for possessing a knife.

Although he received a 12-month prison sentence at Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday he was free to go having served nearly eight months on remand.

Judge Charles Gratwicke said: “Anybody observing the conduct of you two that evening couldn’t feel anything but anger and revulsion about what occurred.”

The victim’s stab wound was an inch long and 2ins deep.

The court heard Monteiro’s knife was brandished after he was surrounded by other young men.

Monteiro was 21 at the time and the teenager, who also has a six-month curfew, was 16.

Speaking to the youth, Judge Gratwicke added: “Although you are young, the letter you wrote to me showed a degree of maturity.

“This court is not naive. You know why you were in Colchester.

"If you mix with those kinds of people you will be before the courts very quickly, I have no doubt at all.

“The opportunity given to you will be taken - there will be no second chance.”

Their defence barrister Lucy Sweetland urged for a rehabilitation order to give the teen “stability and structure”.

She described an “unhappy background” with his mother and how he had “no real guidance or role models”.

She said: “Having adults around he can rely on and begin to trust has brought about a real change in his outlook and behaviour.”

Speaking about Monteiro, Ms Sweetland said he was a “productive member of society” working for a delivery firm and then a cleaning company.

She added: “He regrets what he’s done and sorry for bringing that knife with him that day and for what it led to.

“This is the first time he’s been before the court for anything near this serious and he has no record for violence or for weapons.”