A TEENAGER who cut a former friend's arm to the bone with an axe during a street fight was warned he faces being locked up.
The victim, 17, was walking with a friend to a shop in Verdant Lane, Catford, when he was attacked by a gang of youths armed with the wood chopper and a wheel brace, the Old Bailey heard on March 16.
The attacker, also 17, who was arrested after police chased the group from the scene, was later identified by the victim on September 26 last year.
The teenager, from Catford, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding.
Judge Martin Stephens said: "You may well be sent into custody at a young offenders' institution."
The youth was granted bail for pre-sentencing reports.
He is due to be sentenced on April 16.
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