Monifieth teenager took mum’s car and crashed just yards away

A schoolboy who crashed his mother’s car on an Angus roundabout has been warned to prepare for an unpaid work penalty.

Monifieth High School pupil Hasan Ulhaq appeared before Sheriff Gregor Murray at Forfar where he admitted taking a car away without permission from his home address in Dundee’s Colin Gibson Drive on August 8.

He then crashed into a roundabout a few hundred yards up the road.

Depute fiscal Hannah Kennedy said the 16-year-old’s mum had been gardening when she realised both her son and the car were not at home.

“In the interim, police had cause to be alerted to a collision just off the roundabout at Ethiebeaton.

“He had failed to negotiate it and confirmed that he didn’t have his mother’s permission to take the car,” added the fiscal.

Sheriff Murray called for a social work report to consider the possibility of the teenager being dealt with by way of a community order involving unpaid work.

He said: “I don’t want to force you to get a job to pay a fine when you are studying for your Highers.

“The only way you’re going to have to pay for your stupidity is by carrying out unpaid work.”

Ulhaq will return for sentence on January 15.