Forster Square arches A teenager was exploited and abducted by criminal gangs when he committed a spree of eight violent street robberies in central Bradford, a court heard yesterday. The youth, who cannot be named because of his age, attacked boys and male students, snatching phones and money and producing a knife on one occasion. He pleaded guilty to eight robberies committed when he was aged 14 to 16 and was sentenced to a nine-month Youth Rehabilitation Order with a five-month overnight curfew. His barrister, Christopher Styles, said the teenager was exploited by criminal gangs and pressured into carrying out the robberies. At one point, he was abducted and forced to sell drugs in Swansea.