TWO teenagers went on a car crime spree.

They took a car from Liverpool and used it to drive to Runcorn where they took another vehicle.

After stealing beer from Hale Bank Co-op in Widnes, they made off in the car, and then left Hunts Cross Asda without paying for petrol, a court heard last week.

Kevin Gregory, of Marden Road in Halewood, and Craig Taylor, of Lovell Close in Speke, both aged 18, were caught after being identified on images from the petrol station.

Sentencing them at Halton Magistrates Court, the chairman of the bench said: "We have taken into account the nature of these serious offences and that they were alcohol related.

"This was a concerted spree of law-breaking, but we have also taken into account your prompt guilty pleas."

Gregory was jailed for a total of four months for taking a vehicle without owners consent, theft, riding in a stolen car and driving off without paying for petrol.

Taylor was also jailed for four months for two counts of taking a vehicle without the owner's consent, theft and resisting arrest.

Another defendant, Darren Connor, aged 18, of Boundary Farm Road, Halewood, had previously received a 12-month community rehabilitation order for riding in a stolen vehicle and damaging a vehicle.