The thieves are getting younger.

It’s hideous isn’t it Well he couldn’t have done this alone could he? but to drive a car towing a caravan at 11 years old on a blooming motorway by himself is incredible , takes some doing !

It seems he was driven to the site and then he took the car and caravan.
Perhaps it was his 9 year old sister who dropped him off😂.

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And he apparently had other false number plates with him.
Cheeky little......

Apparently he was wanted for several other offences as well. Frightening that such a young boy is already breaking the law so flagrantly.

NewsUK
Boy, 11, arrested after being found at wheel of BMW towing caravan on M1
North Yorkshire officers said they were ‘staggered’ after finding the boy driving a BMW X5 on the motorway
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/bmw-north-yorkshire-police-north-yorkshire-thirsk-b2509596.html

for any doubters.

In minor vein, 5 teenagers in school uniforms got on a bus yesterday and refused to pay fares or tap in a payment card. The bus driver did nothing. It’s obviously minor crime but it starts somewhere?

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Just like county lines that use children as couriers although driving a car at 11 is dangerous to other road users, I bet he was following another car who disappeared when the police showed up. Sister not likely to be with him, she was shoplifting for her mum.

I think it’s really horrible to make assumptions as to the child’s background or ethnicity or even make suggestions …thats truly not good oldanproud and Avaline

BlueBelle I'm afraid 40+ years experience in both the motor trade and the caravan trade means my husband made the same comments.
His only surprise is that the boy is older than 10 years and thus not under the age of criminal responsibility 🤷

It’s not on Vera you can think what you like you can talk to your husband as much as you want but you can’t come on a public forum and make assumptions about the child’s ethnicity

It's hard to believe that a child that age would be capable of driving. Presumably he's been committing crimes since he was able to walk. It's a way of life for some people.
If a child is 'below the age of responsibility', the parents should be held to account. It was probably the parents who put him up to it, and I don't doubt that the whole family are 'known to the police'.

BlueBelle of course we can! It's an open forum.

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I don't like these assumptions about the child's background either. I wish people wouldn't do it it's unfair and unreasonable.
Gypsies, Irish Travellers, Romany are ethnic minority groups.

Just saying.

Well, although we shouldn’t make assumptions, am willing to bet that when more details emerge of the 11 year old caravan thief’s background, certain assumptions will prove correct.

My thoughts exactly.

Calendargirl

Well, although we shouldn’t make assumptions, am willing to bet that when more details emerge of the 11 year old caravan thief’s background, certain assumptions will prove correct.

My thoughts exactly.

Precisely this 👏

Well, although we shouldn’t make assumptions, am willing to bet that when more details emerge of the 11 year old caravan thief’s background, certain assumptions will prove correct

They may well be correct that is absolutely not the point at all but surely you can see it is not on at all to jump to those conclusions and stick them on a public site
Would you really say I bet that’s a Black kid or a Jewish kid or a Pakistani kid or an Irish kid of course you wouldn’t (well I hope to God you wouldn’t ) And it’s totally out of order to jump to these conclusions and make them public

I m amazed

But then we all just sit here, with our own thoughts and assumptions, not posting anything at all?

Obviously that's what BlueBelle would prefer.

BlueBelle

*Well, although we shouldn’t make assumptions, am willing to bet that when more details emerge of the 11 year old caravan thief’s background, certain assumptions will prove correct*

They may well be correct that is absolutely not the point at all but surely you can see it is not on at all to jump to those conclusions and stick them on a public site
Would you really say I bet that’s a Black kid or a Jewish kid or a Pakistani kid or an Irish kid of course you wouldn’t (well I hope to God you wouldn’t ) And it’s totally out of order to jump to these conclusions and make them public

I m amazed

I'm with you, BlueBelle.

One thing's for sure that's not the first time he's driven a car. I've been driving for decades and would not fancy trying to tow a caravan. Where on earth has he learned to drive at such a young age?

Where on earth has he learned to drive at such a young age?

You may well ask. In a field, on an old aerodrome, in a supermarket car park at night, a quiet country road in the middle of nowhere….?