A Felixstowe teenager has been remanded in custody after an Ipswich jury found him guilty of kidnap and robbery.

Dylan Craft of Mill Lane, Felixstowe, had pleaded not guilty of the charges but was convicted yesterday along with three others at Ipswich Crown Court.

The four teenagers denied being involved in the kidnapping of a youth in Woodbridge in December last year.

Craft, 18, along with Kai Mangar, 19, of Brunswick Road, Ipswich, Dylan Craft, of Mill Lane, Felixstowe, Nolan Akuoko, 18, of Faraday Road, Ipswich, and a 17-year-old youth also from Ipswich, who can't be named due to his age, will be sentenced in September 16.

Mangar, Akuoko and Craft were found guilty on Monday (July 18) of kidnapping and robbery and were remanded in custody until their sentencing hearing in September 16.

The 17-year-old was convicted of kidnapp but was allowed until the sentencing hearing and placed him on an electronically monitored curfew between 9pm-6am.

Judge Martyn Levett heard that the victim of the offences was lured to Fen Meadow in Woodbridge by the 17-year-old defendant and was then set upon by two others and bundled into the back of the VW Polo where he was robbed.

Car passenger Craft had earlier told the court the alleged victim had got into a car voluntarily to do a drug deal and hadn't been kidnapped or robbed.

He said that after the alleged victim had chosen to get into Mangar's car at Fen Meadow in Woodbridge there had been a fight between the alleged victim and Akuoko.

Craft said he and Mangar had intervened to break it up and things had calmed down but Akuoko and the alleged victim had both had some injuries.

He said the alleged victim had transferred money from his bank account and no-one had forced him to do it.

He denied that the alleged victim had been robbed of his coat and watch.

Mangar and the 17-year-old youth both chose not to give evidence during the trial.