Her parents, realising the car was missing, called the police, who caught up with the teenager and arrested her.
On the latest occasion Black drove through Newbury to get to her sister's house. It was a repeat of a previous drink-driving offence, committed on Christmas Day 2004, which led to Black, then aged 12, being banned for two years despite being five years younger than the legal driving age. The court heard that on the night of February 13-14, Black, from Thatcham, Berkshire, had drunk three cans of lager before taking her father's car keys and driving off in his Ford Mondeo. The hearing resumed after lunch in a different courtroom.īefore the mayhem, magistrate Margaret Bates took the unusual step of allowing Black to be named, ruling that the public interest in her case outweighed the court's duty to protect a young person.
The teenager raced around the courtroom swearing at officials and grappling with members of her family before security guards, who had been alerted when Mrs Gilmore pressed a panic button in the court, arrived and led her away.
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