A JUDGE has issued a warrant for the arrest of a trust fund teenager after he failed to turn up at court accused of again breaching his suspended jail sentence.

Shaun Kingsman was told "the time has come for you to really pull yourself together," when he was spared jail in February.

But the 19-year-old is said to have lost contact with the probation service and now faces the prospect of having the serve the custodial term.

Judge Tim Mousley QC issued a warrant without bail after hearing the defendant had not turned up for the hearing at Swindon Crown Court.

Kingsman, who has been under an interim ASBO in the past, was sentenced to one year in prison suspended for 18 months in November last year for arson.

The teenager, formerly of Banwell Avenue, Park North, torched a Peugeot 107 on Horsham Road, Park South, because he said he thought its owner had been drink-driving.

But Kingsman, who has £186,000 behind him, repeatedly failed to turn for appointments with probation a judge was told earlier this year.

And despite the trustees agreeing to free up the money for him to rent a flat he was still homeless.

Recorder Michael Vere-Hodge QC told him to sort out his life or he will be facing a jail term.

The judge told him: "You have given the probation service the clear impression that you really have no commitment in carrying out this order.

"Then you write to me saying the one thing in life you don't want is to go back to custody.

"You are only 19, it is hard to know what the court can do to impose impress on you that life is a good deal more serious than you think it is.

"You have got a trust fund with quite considerable assets. You have got money available to give you and get you accommodation and you seem to have let that drift.

"Many people in Swindon and other parts of the country don't have the advantages of a trust fund.

"You are 19 and the time has come for you to really pull yourself together."