A TEENAGER from Melksham who could have killed a former schoolmate when he stabbed him in the back has been given yet another chance by a judge.

Levi Wynter-Joad not only missed appointments with the probation service but was also said to have been pictured on Snapchat posing with a gun.

The image was so concerning to probation that they asked for the judge to re-sentence him.

But instead the 18-year-old, who was put on a youth rehabilitation order in January last year, has just been told to comply with a curfew for the next three months.

Wynter-Joad was only 16 when he stabbed the lad in a night of violence in March 2016, having attacked another person and a van with a golf club.

After a judge at Swindon Crown Court imposed the community order last year the Attorney General appealed against the sentence.

Although senior judges found the sentence was 'unduly lenient' they said that because of the progress he had made they would not jail him.

Within a few weeks he breached the conditions of the order and was put on a curfew as punishment and told 'if I see you in court again the outcome will be very different'.

Now, almost a year on, he has missed more meetings and probation officers are concerned by the picture they saw.

Wynter-Joad, of Littlejohn Avenue, Melksham, admitted breaching the order imposed for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, battery, criminal damage and having an offensive weapon.

Moses Tawo, defending, said his client had done well on the order and denied it was him in the Snapchat picture with the gun.

He said Wynter-Joad was unemployed and living with his mum, and had completed more than a year of the order.

Judge Robert Pawson said "You stabbed someone with a knife: the starting point even at 18 is years.

"You are walking a tightrope Mr Wynter-Joad, you have got to stay on the straight and narrow. If I see you again, however far along it is in the order it will be custody."

He imposed a 6pm to 6am curfew which will last until July 13, when the 18-month order ends.

Last year the appeal court heard the victim was stabbed in the back, causing a one-and-a-half centimetre wound which just missed his spine and kidney.

Lord Justice Davis said of the defendant "He was part of a group and at least one other member of that group had a knife.

“The stabbing could have been very serious indeed, possibly even fatal."