Tearaway teen locked up after throwing away 'golden opportunities'

COURTS 'BENT OVER BACKWARDS' TO HELP REGULAR TROUBLEMAKER 'DETERMINED TO DESTROY HIS LIFE'

- By MARK NAYLOR

A TEENAGE tearaway once described as like a cat with “nine lives” - but on his “12th or 13th life” - has finally been locked up after throwing away “golden opportunities” to avoid custody.

Courts had “bent over backwards” to try to help regular troublemaker Harrison Hadley but he seemed “determined” to “destroy” his life and he already had a bad criminal record from when he was a youth, Hull Crown Court heard.

Hadley, 19, of Kinthorpe, Orchard Park estate, north Hull, admitted burglary on May 7 and theft on April 24. He also admitted breaching a 16-month suspended custodial sentence imposed on May 23 last year.

Gabrielle Coates, prosecuting, said that a woman's son telephoned her asking her where his e-bicycle was. She had left the door locked but the key under a bin outside. Hadley knew the woman and her son and he was with two other youths when he took the key.

Hadley sold the e-bicycle to a shop for £100. It was returned after the woman was contacted about it.