Two boys plead guilty to rooftop wrecking spree in Wallasey

May 6 2009 by Kevin Core, Liverpool Daily Post

TWO teenagers who caused £100,000 of damage during a rooftop siege laughed and smiled as they were locked up by the courts.

The 15 and 16-year-olds, who cannot be named because of their age, were sentenced to detention and training after pleading guilty to the drunken Wallasey wrecking spree which saw slates hurled at police cars.

Reacting to being told he would most likely serve just 11 months of his sentence, the younger youth smiled and asked the judge: “Is that all?”

Despite an application by the Daily Post, district Judge Nick Sanders decided not to lift an order guaranteeing the boys’ anonymity.

Wirral Magistrates Court heard that police were first called to Hillcroft Road on April 15 at 7.45pm when a man reported four youths near his back gate.

When he went outside, he was hit by one of the youths with a pair of bolt cutters, drawing blood from his arm and prompting two of the boys to run into a nearby friend’s house, hiding in the loft space.