Teen who bashed fellow student at Gilles Plains admits stealing her nanna’s car and crashing it during a police chase
A teenage girl who pleaded guilty to bashing a fellow student, leaving her with broken teeth, has admitted stealing her nanna’s car before crashing it while being pursued by police.
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A teenage girl who bashed a fellow student, leaving the victim with serious facial injuries, has pleaded guilty to stealing a car from her “nanna” before crashing it while being pursued by police.
The girl, who turned 16 on Friday, the day she appeared in court, admitted taking the car in the early hours of May 7.
Later that month, she and two other youths are accused of bashing a taxi driver and stealing his car before driving to Berri.
During a hearing in the Youth Court on Friday, the teen’s lawyer asked for her client to be released on home detention bail.
Magistrate Luke Davis heard that the teen had arrived at her nanna’s house asking to stay.
In the early hours of May 7, a witness heard the car start before the teen ran off. A short time later, he said the car was gone.
A police patrol saw the car driving through the northern suburbs and started to follow it when the driver accelerated away.
The teenager later told police another person in the car suggested driving through the backstreets and grabbed the wheel, causing the car to crash into a fence.
Police found the teenager and her co-accused hiding less that 50m from the vehicle.
The teen was on bail for a brutal assault on a teenage girl at a fast-food restaurant in Gilles Plains in February.
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The teenager and another co-accused left the victim with broken teeth and facial injuries.
Mr Davis refused to grant home-detention bail to the girl, saying she had “well and truly displaced” any presumption that she should be released into the community.
He said that there was a high likelihood of more offending and that the girl’s behaviour remained negative while she was housed at Cavan Youth Training Centre.
He asked the teenager, who appeared by video link what she was planning to do when she was eventually released.
“I just want to start fresh,” she said.
The teenager will next appear in court in August.