MAGISTRATES have ordered a boy of 16 to wear an electronic tag and obey a curfew after hearing he left his local authority accommodation while on bail for a burglary and went to his father’s wedding.

The boy - who cannot be identified due to a court order protecting his identity as he is under the age of 18 - had appeared before magistrates sitting in Salisbury last week where he admitted to a burglary to the value of £61,000, driving while disqualified and having no insurance, crown prosecutor Keith Ballinger told the Swindon bench yesterday.

The boy’s case had been adjourned and he was due to appear before the youth court in Swindon on April 18 and he had been remanded to local authority care.

But he left early on April 7 and was reported missing the following evening at 10.45pm.

Police arrested him outside the Civic Offices in Swindon, Mr Ballinger told Swindon magistrates.

Applying for the boy to be remanded back to local authority care, Ben Worthington said the boy had been determined to get to his father’s wedding and had only missed one night by attending the ceremony.

He had very high level attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and was easily influenced by other people, Mr Worthington further explained to the magistrates.

The bench returned him to local authority care with an electronically-monitored tagged curfew between the hours of 7pm and 7am until his next appearance before the courts on April 18.

They also ordered him to stay away from Swindon apart from attending youth offending team appointments.