Dursley teenager Kaine Emery was warned that he is in the 'last chance saloon' after he has failed to obey a court's unpaid work order for nearly four months.

Emery, now 18, was only 17 when he and an accomplice stole £20 from two men in St George's Road, Dursley, just before midnight on July 28, last year.

The teenager, of Frederick Thomas Road, Dursley, later received an 18 month youth rehabilitation order, with six months supervision and was ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work.

But Gloucester Crown Court heard on Wednesday, November 12, that Emery had not turned up to any of his unpaid work sessions since July 29 and had so far completed only 66 hours.

Judge Jamie Tabor QC said: "It is not going well. He has not done any unpaid work since July when he breached the order and I gave him an extra 10 hours.

"He has been required to do it since July. What am I meant to do, just ignore it?"

John Lynch, for Emery, said it was because his client had got a job in construction that he was having difficulty finding time to carry out the unpaid work.

He asked that Emery be given a curfew instead.

Judge Tabor said: "It seems to me that a man who does not do his unpaid work is asking for prison and that is my default position.

"But the probation officer, Mrs Sian Worrall, does not agree. She believes the job he has got could be a turning point in his life.

"Time will tell whether she is right but she is a pretty good judge of character."

The judge placed Emery on an electronically tagged home curfew between 9pm and 6am for the next four months.

"It is not going to be easy because it is over Christmas," the judge told Emery.

"If you breach the curfew then all bets are off and it is prison. This is the last chance saloon."