A 19-YEAR-old-man is due to appear in court charged with four offences.

Pierre Greaves, of Canham Street, Ipswich will be appearing before Ipswich Magistrates Court today.

Greaves is charged with theft from a person and possessing a knife blade in a public place, both relating to an incident which happened on December 4 in Ancaster Road, where a mobile phone was stolen and the victim was threatened with a knife.

He is also charged with another theft from person, which relates to an incident last Friday in Downing Close, where a mobile phone was stolen.

Greaves is also charged with assaulting a person causing them actual bodily harm relating to an incident which happened on February 10 in Birkfield Drive, where a 22-year-old man sustained a single stab wound to his arm.