This is Gloucestershire --
A TEENAGE boy already under a supervision order for shooting his girlfriend with an air gun has admitted committing more offences.
At Gloucester Crown Court yesterday, the 17-year-old, who cannot be named, admitted offences of criminal damage and common assault which he committed on July 18.
He ran amok at an address in Alfred Street, Gloucester, that day and damaged furniture, a door, door frame and wall plaster, three plant pots, and a gazebo. He also assaulted someone there.
The offences were committed just two months after he was sentenced in May for shooting his girlfriend in the back with a powerful air rifle at his home in Matson. In May the court was told the boy could easily have killed his girlfriend when he fired at her.
During that trial, the girl, who was 15 at the time, said she was left in shock and thought she was going to die.
For that offence the boy was given a youth rehabilitation order with supervision for 12 months, was placed under a night time tagged curfew for three months and ordered to do 40 hours of unpaid work.
Sentencing for the latest offences has been adjourned until a date yet to be fixed.
But Judge William Hart warned him that he faces being locked up if the court feels it can no longer find a constructive solution in his case.
Steve Young, defending, told the judge that apart from the new offences the boy had complied "extremely well" with the rehabilitation order and had abided by the curfew and completed the unpaid work.
"He is now much more settled and is due to start college in September," he said.
Judge Hart said: "One goes so far down the road to try to sort out young offenders without locking them up.
"But you reach a stage where you have to say 'no more'. The question here is whether we have reached that stage."
He granted the boy bail until his sentencing at the same court. Reported by This is 3 days ago.
A TEENAGE boy already under a supervision order for shooting his girlfriend with an air gun has admitted committing more offences.
At Gloucester Crown Court yesterday, the 17-year-old, who cannot be named, admitted offences of criminal damage and common assault which he committed on July 18.
He ran amok at an address in Alfred Street, Gloucester, that day and damaged furniture, a door, door frame and wall plaster, three plant pots, and a gazebo. He also assaulted someone there.
The offences were committed just two months after he was sentenced in May for shooting his girlfriend in the back with a powerful air rifle at his home in Matson. In May the court was told the boy could easily have killed his girlfriend when he fired at her.
During that trial, the girl, who was 15 at the time, said she was left in shock and thought she was going to die.
For that offence the boy was given a youth rehabilitation order with supervision for 12 months, was placed under a night time tagged curfew for three months and ordered to do 40 hours of unpaid work.
Sentencing for the latest offences has been adjourned until a date yet to be fixed.
But Judge William Hart warned him that he faces being locked up if the court feels it can no longer find a constructive solution in his case.
Steve Young, defending, told the judge that apart from the new offences the boy had complied "extremely well" with the rehabilitation order and had abided by the curfew and completed the unpaid work.
"He is now much more settled and is due to start college in September," he said.
Judge Hart said: "One goes so far down the road to try to sort out young offenders without locking them up.
"But you reach a stage where you have to say 'no more'. The question here is whether we have reached that stage."
He granted the boy bail until his sentencing at the same court. Reported by This is 3 days ago.