A TRIO of robbers have been jailed after they pinned down a man and threatened him with a ‘knife’ in a terrifying late-night robbery.

Michael Sines, Lisa Fletcher and Lisa Dunbar robbed the man of his bank card and a torch but were really ‘looking for drugs’ after taking off his shoes in the middle of the road at gone 1am.

Collectively, the trio were handed prison sentences totalling more than 10 years for their night-time attack.

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The victim was walking through Salt Hill Park and onto Windmill Road when he was confronted by Dunbar on March 21, 2021. The pair knew each other.

Sines then grabbed the victim around the neck and produced a stanley knife.

Prosecutor Brian Reece said the Sines uttered ‘I’ve got a knife, give me everything you’ve got.’

The victim was wrestled to the ground by Sines and pinned down by Dunbar and Fletcher, who proceeded to punch him.

The trio searched the man’s pockets and took off his shoes in the middle of the road at 1.40am.

He was heard shouting ‘get that knife away from me’ by neighbours.

They took the victim’s bank card and torch but did not take his mobile phone or scooter.

Mr Reece said: “It is clear what what they hoped to find was something small and well-concealed.

“Clearly it was drugs they were looking for.”

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The trio made off down Bath Road leaving the victim with injuries to his hands, arm and neck.

Mr Reece said the victim is now afraid to go out on his own at night.

Gwen Williamson, defending for Sines, 47, said the Surrey man was ‘sorry’ for involvement in the incident and that he ‘bitterly regrets’ taking part.

The barrister said no serious harm came from the incident, suggesting it was Dunbar who had brought the knife to the scene.

Lawrence Henderson, defending for Dunbar, 36, said his client was now a grandmother who was ‘looking forward’ to meeting her grandchild upon release from HMP Bronzefield.

He said Dunbar took Class A drugs but now she is free from her habit and has a number of certificates showing her progress.

The barrister said Dunbar played a ‘limited role’ in this incident and denied his client was unaware of Sines’ blade.

Martin Hawkes, defending for Fletcher, 39, also said his defendant had got clean after becoming addicted to Class A drugs.

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He said Fletcher’s role was serious, but that it was Dunbar who initially spoke to the victim and Sines who threatened the man.

Sentencing, Her Honour Judge Campbell said she believed Sines brought the knife to the incident and that he played a ‘leading role’.

The Judge said Sines had a previous conviction for stabbing a Homebase manager in 2014 and another for robbing an elderly lady after knocking her to the ground outside her flat, breaking her hip in the process.

Sines, of Riverside Park, Addlestone, was sentenced to five years imprisonment for robbery and using a bladed article to make threats and will serve another two years on licence following his release.

Dunbar, of no fixed abode, was handed a 38-month prison sentence for robbery.

Fletcher, also of no fixed abode, was handed a 32-month jail term for robbery.

The trio were sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Friday, February 18.