Riot bin theft boy, 11, sentenced

31 August 2011 Last updated at 07:41 ET

The boy had admitted a charge of burglary

An 11-year-old has been given an 18-month th rehabilitation order for stealing a bin during the recent riots.

The boy, from Romford in east London, is the ngest rioter in London to face prosecution, according to police.

He committed the offence just five days after being given a referral order for arson and criminal damage in an unrelated incident.

The ngster took the waste bin, which was worth £50, from Debenhams in Romford on 8 August.

Havering Magistrates’ Court was told a group of “males” had smashed the windows of the store, causing £6,000 worth of damage, and a policeman spotted the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, reaching in to take a bin that was on display.

Cut bus seats

The boy had previously admitted a charge of burglary.

The 11-year-old was placed under an 18-month th rehabilitation order, and told that his local authority will dictate where he lives for the next six months.

He was already under a referral order, put in place at the same court on 3 August, for an incident in July when he cut the seats of a bus with a stanley knife and tried to set fire to the exposed foam.

When the driver would not let him off, the 11-year-old threw a stone at the exit door of the route 174 bus, and then kicked a hole in the shattered glass so that he could jump out while the bus was still moving.

Passing sentence, District Judge John Woollard said: “ seem to think that nobody can stop the way behave.”

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