Moment yobs break into store and then realise their stupidity

CTV captured a prolific teen criminal breaking into a supermarket with two members of his “gang” before swaggering around and triggering an alarm that led to their arrest.

- CONOR GOGARTY

The footage shows Cody Bond, 18, and his accomplices running amok at Merthyr Tydfil’s Tesco Extra.

Bond, who already has 27 offences on his record despite his tender years, treated the supermarket like a “playground” in a burglary at 4am on May 28 after smashing his way through reinforced glass doors using house bricks.

He and his friends - who cannot be named because they are 15 - were in possession of a machete, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

Store cameras caught the group puffing away on vapes as they helped themselves to food.

At one stage Bond went behind a counter and tried to open cupboards containing vapes and cigarettes before picking up a box containing unknown items.

Bond then vaulted back over the counter with the box - but it turned out he had triggered an alarm which resulted in smoke pouring into the supermarket.

Prosecutor Ieuan Bennett said the three youngsters had turned up at the store, in Beacons Place shopping centre, wearing dark clothing with their hoodies pulled up in “a vain attempt to hide their identities”.

They stabbed at the lock on the security doors with a machete before walking away and returning with several bricks.