'One of the country's most prolific thieves has been allowed to walk free from court after a judge was told he had turned over a new leaf.Bradley Wernham, 18, has committed hundreds of offences during a £1million crime spree that began when he was 12 and involved stealing luxury cars and breaking into churches, homes and pubs.
But after admitting 20 burglaries and asking for another 645 offences to be taken into account, he was told that rather than going to jail he was to be relocated to a new town and given a rent-free home to live in with his girlfriend.
The punishment was handed out by Judge Christopher Ball QC, who has caused uproar in the past with a series of lenient sentences.'
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