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A Chard teenager who refused to comply with a court order after deliberately throwing a pot of faeces and urine into the face of his teacher while serving at a Young Offenders' Institute has been sent back behind bars for 20 weeks.

Louis Kyle Woods carried out the sickening and disgusting act while being taught one-to-one by the victim and was caught on CCTV laughing at her as she fled the room.

The excrement was all over her face, eyes and hair and her clothes were left soaked, leaving her feeling physically sick. She was signed off from work with stress.

In another incident, Woods was at the wheel of a car in Chard town centre without a licence or insurance when he lost control and crashed into another car, shunting it into a wall causing damage and leaving both vehicles written off.

The defendant was sentenced to a Youth Rehabilitation Order but didn't bother turning up for his appointments and was brought before Somerset Magistrates' Court for his third breach of the order.

Then he carried out a burglary at the Frome YMCA, stealing crisps and sweets from the canteen and helping himself to money from a charity box.

When staff heard the alarms sounding and confronted Woods, he replied: "Yes, I stole it. I don't give a f***".

When he appeared before the court at Yeovil in custody, the magistrates were told that the Probation Service was refusing to offer the defendant any more chances as he had repeatedly refused to comply with previous orders and, as a result, he was sent straight into custody.

The 19-year-old defendant from Chard, but currently of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a YRO imposed in March this year for offences of assault by beating and dangerous driving by failing to attend for three appointments with the Probation Service.

He also admitted entering the Roots Café at Frome YMCA on June 23 and stealing confectionery and money of an unknown value.

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Prosecutor Suzie Butler said Wood was a resident at Frome YMCA at the time of the burglary when staff heard the alarm sounding for the café on the lower level.

"It was covered by CCTV which showed the defendant taking some Pringles and then tried to take money from a charity box," she said.

"An employee saw the defendant standing there with two small tubs of Pringles and sweets in his hand and said 'I took crisps and sweets and £5 from the charity box. I don't give a f***."

On January 1, 2018, Woods was a serving prisoner at a Young Offenders' Institution in Bridgend when he was working one to one with an English teacher in a classroom with two other prisoners.

"The victim got up to help another student but when she returned to the desk opposite the defendant he threw a pot of urine and faeces into her face," said Mr Harper.

"She left the room and felt disgusted with excrement all over her face and hair and it soaked through her clothing into her skin.

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"She attempted to wash it off her hair in the toilets but could not get it clean and then showered in the prison gym and was given fresh prison-issue clothing to wear."

The court was told that Woods could be seen on the CCTV putting his hand under the table and then throwing it at the victim face and he then threw the container at her as she left the room.

He was then seen laughing aloud afterwards along with other inmates in the room and when prison officers arrived he put his face into his jumper to stifle his laughter.

The traumatised victim attended hospital where she was given treatment to her eyes and attempted to return to work the following day but found it too stressful.

She said she felt she had lost her confidence, did not trust any of the inmates anymore and suffered from flashbacks for which she was prescribed medication to help her sleep.

When Woods was interviewed about the offence, he admitted throwing the faeces over his teacher and accepted it was an unprovoked attack as there had been no issue between them.

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He said he entered the classroom with the intention of throwing the contents of the container at somebody and then made no comment to all other questions.

On December 5 last year, Woods drove a Peugeot car into Chard on the pretext of giving it a test drive with the owner of the vehicle his front seat passenger.

The car had no insurance, MOT or tax and the defendant did not have a licence when he drove it along the High Street well over the 30mph speed limit and lost control coming down the hill.

Probation officer Joe Harper said: "It went into a residential area with parked cars on the right hand side and near a large residential home and started to snake from side to side.

"It spun around in the road and collided with the passenger side of a Kia vehicle and the impact was such that it pushed the car about five feet sideways onto two wheels and then hit a wall causing a four foot long crack."

Defending solicitor, Neil Priest, said that Woods accepted being in breach of his community order adding that he had been homeless for the past two months and living in and around Chard.

"Unfortunately he has not had the support of his family and he is also still a young man and has certain mental health issues including PTSD after previously serving time in custody," he said.

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"He has not attended any of his probation appointments, but four out of the seven were deemed as acceptable absences.

"He has literally been living on the streets of Chard without the means to communicate or fund travel and it is a great shame it is not possible to offer an alternative community penalty.

"He regrets he took the money from the café but says it was from a pot and not a charity box and some of it was returned."

The magistrates revoked the community order and sentenced Woods to a total of 20 weeks custody for the assault, dangerous driving and burglary offences.

He was also ordered to pay the Frome YMCA £17.20 compensation and £60 costs to the Probation Service.

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