A TEENAGER who took his mum's car, crashed it and wrote it off after a drinking session, has been locked up for eight months.
Burnley Crown Court was told how Matthew Loughlin, 19, who has never held a driving licence, and was not insured, had a passenger in the vehicle when he struck in August. The vehicle was abandoned and was then torched when the defendant fled the scene, Loughlin, who has been given chance after chance by the courts, found his luck had run out when he appeared for sentence after the escapade. Since November 2012, he had been made subject to two suspended sentences, as well as periods of detention, and had missed half his probation appointments as he had been in police custody.
The defendant, of Newfield Drive, Nelson, had admitted aggravated vehicle taking.
He was banned for two years.
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