A BULLYING teenage mother-to-be will give birth to twins behind bars, after she and her antisocial boyfriend terrorised a young handicapped man, York Crown Court heard.

Nicholas Merrill, 18, has learning disabilities and a muscle condition that means he cannot run, York Crown Court heard.

He told a jury that Kelly Louise Allen, 18, and Theo Lee, 16, confronted him on April 20 as he was waiting for a train, forced him off a railway platform and beat him up.

Lee threatened to kill Mr Merrill unless he revealed the PIN number of his bank card. Allen tried to stop him giving evidence against her about an incident involving him, her and a knife.

A 16-year-old schoolboy also gave evidence that on April 21. Allen menaced him and grabbed his cigarettes.

Allen's actions mean that she will be in jail when she gives birth in September. She cried and made obscene gestures as she was led from court to start three years and nine months behind bars.

Lee's actions breached an antisocial behaviour order, which banned him from using any threatening behaviour, and banned him from York for five years, after shopkeepers in Acomb and elsewhere complained of his criminal actions towards them.

Lee, formerly of York and Pagnall Avenue, Selby, was jailed for four years for robbery.

Allen, formerly of York, Parliament Street, Malton, and Cygnet House hostel, Selby, was jailed for three years and nine months for two robberies and witness intimidation. Both had denied all charges, but were convicted by a jury.

Allen's sentence will run simultaneously with a 12-month detention and training order she got in June for intimidating Mr Merrill before the latest incident.

Her barrister, Mark McKone, said she was expecting to give birth to twins in September and will be separated from them.

Mr Merrill told the jury: "She (Allen) bullied me. She always bullies me and pushes me."

He said he was waiting at Selby Railway Station when he heard a shout of "there he is" and Allen, Lee and a girl companion charged across the footbridge towards him. They made him walk towards Cygnet House. As Allen and Lee beat him up near the hostel, staff from the hostel spotted them and the robbers ran off with £13 of his money.

The 16-year-old schoolboy said that he and his 15-year-old friend tried to walk away from Allen and a girl when they spotted them on the way to school, but Allen walked over to them, menaced him and grabbed his cigarettes.

Mr McKone said Allen had only been 17 at the time of the offences.

For Lee, John Dunning gave no mitigation.

Updated: 10:15 Monday, July 18, 2005