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Prison for mobile muggers
It's one of the first sentences to be given out since a top judge said yesterday that phone muggers would definitely go to prison.
The court heard that Healey and an accomplice punched the teenager on a street in Streatham, south London, and demanded his wallet and phone.
'More careful'
After his attacker was jailed, Lee said: "It's great it's all over. When I'm out I look over my shoulder a lot.
Under the new guidelines, phone muggers who use weapons or violence face five years or more in prison.
And it won't matter how old they are, or whether they've committed any crimes before.
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A man who punched a teenage boy and stole his mobile phone has been jailed for four years by a judge at the Old Bailey.
Lee Staples: Attack victim
Dean Healey, who's 23, from Brixton in south London, was found guilty of robbing 17-year-old Lee Staples last year.
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