He threatened the teenage cannabis seller with a knife
Kian Daly pictured at Hull Crown Court(Image: Hull Live)
A menacing young robber held a knife to a teenage cannabis dealer’s stomach and threatened to “make a scene” if he did not hand over money. The victim handed over cash, two vapes and two metal neck chains, a court heard.
But he was warned: “There will be war if you tell anyone.” Kian Daly, 20, of Baysgarth View, Barton-upon-Humber, but recently in custody on remand, admitted robbery between May 27 and June 10, 2023. He also admitted possessing a knife.
Stephen Welch, prosecuting, told an earlier hearing at Hull Crown Court that Daly telephoned a teenager and asked him to supply a small amount of cannabis. The 19-year-old dealer agreed and they arranged to meet nearby in a parkland area of Scunthorpe.
Daly turned up with an accomplice, who filmed them on his phone. Daly asked to smell the cannabis and the teenager handed it over. “Daly put both wraps in his pocket,” said Mr Welch.
Daly pulled out a knife, held it to the teenager’s belly and demanded money or he would “make a scene”. Fearing that he would be stabbed, the teenager handed over £8 cash, two vapes and two metal neck chains, supposedly worth £400 but bought for only £10.
The accomplice continued to film the confrontation and he was “smirking”.
Daly twice threatened the dealer: “If you tell anyone, we will be back. There will be war if you tell anyone.”
The video of the robbery was uploaded online and people who knew the teenager persuaded him that he should report the matter to the police. A friend of his persuaded the pair to return the stolen items, apart from the two vapes.
Daly later told the victim: “You have got your chains back. Don’t be a c***.” The teenager was scared that they would come back.
The pair “planned to rob him from the get go” and it was “idiotic” to film the confrontation because, after it was posted online, that was how the police became involved. Daly told an earlier hearing that he did not know the “quite nerdy” teenager before the robbery. “I have never met him before,” he said.
“That was the first time. I didn’t know who was coming.” Daly agreed that it was “not too clever” to produce a knife.
The court heard that Daly had, after the robbery, been locked up for 41 weeks in July 2024 for an offence of affray. He said that his time in Hull Prison was “not the best place to be” and, after his release, he was later recalled to custody for 12 days for breaching his licence conditions before being later released again.
Sentence on the robbery and knife offences had originally been deferred for six months on May 1 last year.
Since the deferment, he had committed an offence of interfering with a vehicle. At a later hearing on December 1, it emerged that Daly was in custody on remand accused of a new burglary offence.
He was further remanded in custody that day to await the outcome of that case. At the latest hearing, the court was told that Daly had been due to face a trial before Grimsby magistrates on January 6 accused of burglary, involving stealing a moped, in Brigg on November 12.
The case was, however, dismissed after the prosecution offered no evidence. Daly was, in view of that, finally sentenced for the robbery and knife offences.
He was given 25 days’ rehabilitation and a 26-day probation service programme.