Two teenagers armed with a machete lured a delivery man to Margate - to rob him of a £12 pizza.

Thomas McConnell, 18, and 19-year-old friend Jay Sword lay in wait as their unsuspecting victim arrived in December at an address in College Road, Margate.

The fast-food delivery shop had earlier been given a telephone booking - and then received follow-up calls from someone using a mobile phone asking how long it would be before the pizza arrived.

Hamid Hashemii stopped his vehicle near the block of flats at 8.30pm and was ushered inside carrying the food, Canterbury Crown Court heard.

Edmund Burge, prosecuting, said the two then appeared near a stairwell with a machete - demanding he hand over the pizza and cash.

“He was pushed by both men who had been hiding underneath the stairs. It was then that one of the men produced a machete demanding the pizza and money," added Mr Burge.

When Mr Hashemii challenged them, they slapped him twice across the face with the weapon causing bruising before snatching the food and running away.

Two days later, an anonymous caller told police the teenagers had carried out the attack and gave officers an address – which was the next block of flats.

Officers raided the flat and discovered the weapon hidden underneath McConnell's bed.

McConnell, now of Ethelbert Crescent, Margate, and Sword, of Plains Of Waterloo, Ramsgate, were each jailed for two years and nine months after admitting robbery.

The judge, Recorder David Jeremy QC, told them: “This was a robbery carried out at night by you two when a machete was produced and used to strike your victim – someone who by the very nature of his occupation is vulnerable.”