A 19-year-old man received a conditional discharge on Friday for his role in robbing a man of $4,200 worth of goods and beating him with a helmet when he stopped at an ATM.

Zeko Rubaine, along with Keishun Trott, 17, and Jahreko Hill, 16, have all pleaded guilty on three separate occasions to robbing Joseph Budzynski on March 5 this year.

In Magistrates' Court, Rubaine was sentenced to a conditional discharge and two years probation, while on October 15, Trott received an order for corrective training which could be between nine months and two years. Hill will appear in Magistrates' Court on January 13 next year for his sentencing date.

According to the prosecution, around 8.45 p.m. on March 5, Mr. Budzynski stopped at Lindo's Market in Devonshire to use the ATM machine and withdrew $100.

When he finished the transaction he turned around and saw the three teenagers approaching him. One had a hood over his head and another had a scarf on his face.

The men took the $100 and then pulled him to the ground where they took off the victim's helmet and kicked him in the body and face.

The three teenagers then demanded his PIN number and, fearing for his life, he gave it to them. They then withdrew another $200 and fled with Mr. Budzynski's computer bag, IBM laptop, sunglasses, Apple iPod, Voss ear phones, LG cell phone, blue helmet and a money clip containing a Butterfield Bank card and cash.

Rubaine's lawyer Kenrick James argued that he had enrolled himself in the Raleigh International Programme, which offers overseas expeditions that challenge young people to develop life skills, after the offence to extricate himself from the neighbourhood.

He said: "He understands the seriousness of the offence. He has been involved in the Raleigh International group since the offence.

"His actions since this offence have shown a commitment to rehabilitation and self-rehabilitation.

"And he has made it abundantly clear that he knows that what he did was wrong and he knows it is a particularly serious matter. He is very remorseful for what he has done. His family is also prepared to make reparations up to 50 percent. He was a follower not an instigator."

However, Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said that all three boys seem to be arguing this and he then sentenced him to a conditional discharge warning him that he shouldn't take it for granted.

"They all seem like followers so who was the leader? This is not a case where reparations are the only part of the criminality.

"The other two got corrective training and he will not get away any lighter than them with a conditional discharge. The main factor that stopped you from being on your way to Westgate today is that I am satisfied that even before the offence and admission to this offence you clearly demonstrated a willingness to change your life and straighten yourself out with regards to your behaviour and the company you keep.

"You should not make the mistake (in believing) that you have gotten off easy. You have not beaten the system, the system is not going to change, it's up to you to change."

He then sentenced him to a conditional discharge with two years probation and required him to take part in any programmes that officers believe necessary.