A YOUTH has been spared jail over a series of offences including robberies and a burglary at a pub.

The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also crashed a stolen car into a parked vehicle.

He admitted aggravated vehicle taking and criminal damage at Warrington Magistrates Court on Thursday, June 11, having previously pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery, burglary, attempted burglary and assaulting an emergency services worker after a string of crime over the course of a year.

A first incident came on Valentine’s Day 2019, when the boy, from Padgate, attempted to burgle a house on St Elphin’s Close in Howley.

The following month, he robbed two victims of their mountain bikes in the town on the same day.

In May last year, the teenager broke into the Jolly Falstaff pub on Blackbrook Square in Padgate and stole £500 in cash.

Then, in November, he attacked a prison officer at HMP Werrington in Stoke-on-Trent.

A month later, the teen stole a Renault Clio in Warrington and later crashed it into a parked Skoda Scala – causing ‘extensive damage’.

And in April this year, he destroyed a toaster and a dinner plate during an incident in Preston.

His actions also put him in breach of a youth rehabilitation order imposed by the court in August last year.

This came after he robbed a 15-year-old boy of £20 cash during an attack on Buttermarket Street in the town centre in June 2019.

Magistrates handed him a new nine-month youth rehabilitation order last week, including a 12-week electronically monitored curfew from 7pm to 7am and a 91-day supervision programme.

The youth was also banned from driving for 18 months and told to pay a victim surcharge of £21.