A teenager tied up a 14-year-old boy with a mobile phone charger cable during a burglary in a south Oxfordshire village.
Cameron Sephton, 19, got away with electrical goods from a house in a village near Didcot before driving dangerously through the town -- pursued by police -- and crashing in a cemetery.
Two memorial stones were knocked over before his car came to a halt over a grave, Oxford Crown Court heard on July 8.
John Price, prosecuting, said Sephton got into the house on April 8 this year when the boy's mother was out shopping.
He had a crowbar in his hands when the boy first came across him. Sephton ordered the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to lie on the floor and tied his hands behind his back with flex from a phone charger before stealing items, including jewellery, a fax machine and a computer.
Police later spotted Sephton driving a car full of electrical goods at Hadden Hill, near Didcot, and set off in pursuit. Sephton raced through the town centre, before crashing into the graveyard in Kynaston Road, damaging a tree.
Sephton, of Hagbourne Road, Didcot, pleaded guilty to burglary, false imprisonment, dangerous driving and driving without insurance.
Not guilty pleas to charges of robbery and criminal damage were allowed to lie on the court file.
Judge Anthony King jailed Sephton for a total of six years for the burglary and false imprisonment, and 15 months concurrent for dangerous driving.
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