A 20-year-old Scarborough man who terrorised a local family in their own home and stabbed a teenager while he hung out with his friends has been sentenced to nine years’ detention in a young offenders’ institute

Joseph George Johnson of Fieldside, Scarborough, was sentenced last week and received six years’ detention for aggravated burglary and 30 months’ detention for assault with intent to commit robbery.

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In a separate offence on 31 May 2020, Johnson held a screwdriver to the face of a 19-year-old man in an area known as Jonno’s field in Scarborough, stabbing him once in the face, demanding that his victim and his two friends hand over their money, before stabbing him in the face a second time.