Teen locked up for carjacking a woman at knifepoint then crashing her Peugeot in Croydon
A 15-year-old boy has been locked up after he carjacked a woman at knifepoint before joyriding and crashing the vehicle in Croydon.
The boy stole the silver Peugeot 307 in February, pouncing as the female driver was performing a manoeuvre in Elmwood Road.
He threatened her with a knife before stealing the car. But he crashed the hatchback into a parked vehicle in Haslemere Road, police said.
He was sentenced to three years in a youth offenders institution at Southampton Crown Court on Monday, having admitted robbery and threatening a member of the public with a knife.
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