A serial car thief is back behind bars after he stole a vehicle while out on bail.
Jason Grant appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday after he previously admitted taking the Audi A1 from a property on Albury Place last November.
The 19-year-old, whose address was given as HMP Polmont, also pleaded guilty to stealing fuel from the Shell Don Service Station on King Street on November 16.
Grant further admitted driving the stolen car while disqualified and without insurance across various roads in the city, the A90 Aberdeen to Dundee road and West High Street in Forfar.
Defence agent David Sutherland told the court Grant had made significant progress in recent months.
He said that “at long last” the message was getting through to his client that he would continue to be locked up if he kept stealing cars.
Mr Sutherland told the court that Grant had been offending since he was at least 16-years-old but had hopefully now turned a corner.
Grant, he said, no longer associated with the notorious gang of car thieves that had plagued the north-east in recent years.
He said his client had been given a positive report by social workers and was hopeful this sentence would be his last.
Sheriff Graeme Napier sent Grant to detention for 22 months and banned him from driving for three years.
