Pizza ordering crooks are serving time inside after they robbed the delivery driver when the food turned up.

Levi Rose and Nathan Ward got the delivery driver to go to an address in Deepfield Way, Coulsdon, but when he arrived he was told no-one had ordered anything.

Eighteen-year-old Rose and Ward were waiting for him by his vehicle and nicked the pizza, his mobile phone and all his money, which was about £60.

During the investigation into the robbery detectives checked the phone records related to the mobile used to book the pizza delivery and discovered it belonged to 21-year-old Ward.

When questioned about the March 21 robbery Ward initially claimed he had been in Rose’s house, in Deepfield Way, where two men he did not know and could not name had used his phone to order the food.

But the analysis of his phone meant police could prove Ward, of Bouverie Gardens, Purley, was involved and he was charged with robbery on May 3.

Twenty days later, on May 23, he and Xavier Bennett tried to steal a mobile phone from a 13-year-old boy on his way to school in The Grove, Coulsdon.

Shortly afterward, on the same morning, Bennett, of Fordel Road, Catford, stole a 15-year-old boy’s mobile phone.

Ward was identified from CCTV footage and charged with one count of attempted robbery and one count of robbery.

Bennett handed himself in at Croydon police station and was also charged with attempted robbery and robbery.

And on June 19 last year Rose was charged with one count of robbery.

All three men pleaded guilty and were sentenced at Croydon Crown Court on January 16.

Twenty-year-old Bennett has been jailed for 15 months and Ward and Rose have both been sent to a young offender institution, for 18 months and 12 months respectively.