A TEENAGE offender with a ‘staggeringly bad record for someone so young’ has been put behind bars again.

Barclay Redford was previously locked up after being involved in a serious hit-and-run which left another teenager with life-changing injuries.

During that sentencing hearing, the 19-year-old was slammed by barristers for amassing 17 previous convictions at the time, including two for robbery.

But following his time in custody, he has now offended again and has once again found himself in a young offender institution.

Redford was charged with possessing a knife in public, possessing class A drugs, theft from a vehicle, possessing an article for use in fraud and failing to provide a sample for a class A drug test.

His case was heard before Chester Magistrates’ Court on Monday, February 27, where he was told that appropriate punishment was detention.

The court heard from prosecutor Alan Currums how this latest series off offending occurred over two days in February.

It began with the defendant stealing a coat and bank cards from a vehicle in Warrington on Friday, February 24.

The next day, he was found to be in possession of an electronic card reader when stopped by police on Crosfield Street, which was for use in the course of or in connection with a fraud.

Redford was also found to have a quantity of the class A controlled drug crack cocaine and a retractable utility knife ‘without good reason’.

He was taken to Runcorn Custody Suite by officers, where he failed without good cause to provide a sample for the purpose of ascertaining whether he had a class A drug in his body.

The court was informed of ‘staggeringly bad record’, including his role in the hit-and-run incident which occurred on Battersby Lane in Orford on October 29, 2021.

Redford was the passenger in a car with defective lights being driven by Elliot Watson, who was disqualified from driving at the time.

The pair had spent the evening drinking vodka and inhaling nitrous oxide – more commonly known as laughing gas – with driver Watson admitting to ‘blacking out’ at the time.

They then hit their 18-year-old victim as he crossed Battersby Lane with his 12-year-old brother.

Eyewitnesses described the car ‘coming out of nowhere’, travelling ‘way too fast at motorway speeds’ on the wrong side of the road or straddling the white line.

The car was estimated to be speeding at up to 90mph – three times the speed limit of the road – and there was a ‘massive bang’ before the victim flew over the top of the car before hitting the road.

Emergency services attended and the victim was taken to hospital with life-changing injuries including serious brain injuries, a bleed on the brain, multiple head and rib fractures and a collapsed lung.

Redford admitted aggravated vehicle theft and was sentenced to 10 months in a young offender institution at Liverpool Crown Court in December 2021.

Referencing these latest offences, district judge John McGarva said he would take the defendant’s guilty pleas to all offences into account.

However, due to this being his third knife offence, the nature and seriousness of the offences, and highlighting his previous convictions, he said that only custody was appropriate.

Redford, of Banks Crescent in Latchford, was sentenced to 26 weeks in custody.

The court also approved an order for the forfeiture and destruction of the utility knife, cocaine and electronic card reader seized on his arrest.