TWO women have been sentenced to a total of six-and-a-half years in jail after a female passenger was attacked and robbed at New Cross railway station.

Shukri Warsame, aged 24, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison while 20-year-old Saida Mohamed was given a three-year sentence at Southwark Crown Court yesterday (July 27).

A 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will be sentenced at a later date.

The 29-year-old victim from New Cross was attacked at around 10.25pm on November 20 last year.

Detective Sergeant John Wolstenholme, from British Transport Police’s robbery squad, said: “Warsame attacked her with a large glass vodka bottle, striking her repeatedly on the back of the head and demanding she hand over her mobile phone.

“Mohamed and the other girl joined in the attack, punching and kicking her until they had managed to prise the mobile phone from her hand.”

The trio also took the woman’s handbag before trying to run off but they were restrained by other passengers.

The victim was taken to hospital where she received stitches for the wound on her head.

Warsame, from Leytonstone, pleaded guilty to robbery and wounding with intent to do GBH.

Mohamed, from Gunnersbury, was found guilty of robbery.

She was found not guilty of wounding with intent to do GBH and a separate charge of unlawful wounding.

The teenage girl, from Ilford, was found guilty of robbery.

Det Sgt Wolstenholme added: “This was a vicious, despicable and cowardly attack which left a passenger who had no chance of defending herself against three others badly injured.”