A CROWN Court judge has called for regular progress reports to be given to him on a Devizes teenager who attacked his mother and took her bag.

At Salisbury Crown Court on Friday, Judge David MacLaren Webster QC asked for a report in six weeks' time and then quarterly.

He had just sentenced James Govier, 19, who was living at his mother's home in Stockwell Road at the time, to a two- year Community Rehabilitation Order.

He imposed conditions that he participate in a Think First programme and attend psychiatric or medical assessment.

Govier had pleaded guilty to charges of common assault and theft.

The court heard he was alone when his mother returned home but he said: 'Let's get Mum's bag.'

He then pushed her to the ground and took her bag.

Minutes later the handbag was recovered, but £80 was missing.

The court was told that Govier had taken police to where he had hidden the bag under leaves.

Govier, defended by Alex Daymond, told police he had meant the theft of the bag as a joke.

He said he had wanted his mother to feel "small."

Sentencing him, Judge MacLaren Webster said it was a mean and unpleasant offence committed out of a mistaken sense of revenge.