A MAN has been warned he faces jail after admitting robbing a teenager on a train and attempting to rob a woman at knifepoint.

Daniel Evans, 22, of Brinkworth Close, Hockley, first targeted a 16-year-old boy while the Greater Anglia train approached Prittlewell station.

He then tried to rob Maria Kirk in Grainger Road, Southend, using a hunting knife after leaving the train.

At Basildon Crown Court yesterday, Judge David Owen-Jones said: “I make no promises whatsoever what the sentence will be.

“These are serious matters they inevitably carry a prison sentence.”

Evans robbed the teenager of his Blackberry mobile phone on train in the early hours of Tuesday, January 8.

He then left Southend Victoria station and then approached Mrs Kirk.

Evans, who was examined by a psychiatrist before pleading guilty to the charges as he claims to have no recollection of the events, sobbed throughout the hearing.

He denied assaulting railway security guard James Evans when he got off the train at Southend and beating another woman on the same date. The Crown Prosecution Service opted not to take those cases to trial and instead ordered for them to lie on file.

Evans, whose parents were in court, has written letters apologising to the victims.