999 depot raid boy sentenced

TAKEN: a rapid response vehicle similar to the one taken

A TEENAGER who targeting the North-West Ambulance service in a string of offences has been sentenced to a 12-month detention and training order by Oldham Magistrates.

The 16-year-old boy, from Werneth will spend six months in custody and the remaining term working closely with probation.

The matters related to an incident at Crofton Street ambulance depot, where the teenager stole eight sets of car keys and a rapid response car. It was later found abandoned at the junction of Windsor Road and Bright Street.

He also pleaded guilty to taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent, driving a vehicle without third party insurance and driving a vehicle without a licence as well as a count of vagrancy.

The youth was already subject to an existing court order for breaking into Crompton Ambulance Station and stealing a defibrillator worth £12,000 and a paramedic’s uniform, in February.

That time he was bailed but broke into the station again while on bail. He and another boy broke in through a ground floor window, forced open staff lockers and took car keys and a car owned by an ambulanceman. They crashed the car into another car in Stalybridge.