JAILED:Jake Smedley
A THUG attacked an eight-year-old boy as he walked to a shop to buy a can of pop, punching him and robbing him of the £10 note he was carrying.
Drug addict Jake Smedley spotted the schoolboy near Barlow Park, Astley Bridge, as he walked with two others on his way to buy the drink.
Callous Smedley then pounced from behind, punching the terrified boy in the side of his body before running off with the bank note.
The child, left crying and in pain, headed home to tell his mother what had happened.
Smedley was later arrested and appeared before former Bolton judge Timothy Stead, now sitting at Teesside Crown Court, via a video link from Forest Bank prison.