It'll take a bomb to shift this moron

[Gob]

A teenage hoaxer told police a bomb was set to explode at a packed shopping centre - so his fed-up brother could finish his shift at Burger King early.



Luke Brown, 18, called 999 and claimed there was a device in the Castle Mall food court in Norwich city centre which was due to go off in six hours time.

But the crazy stunt went wrong immediately as cops swooped on the phone box where he was on Long John Hill and arrested him, a court heard on Friday.

Furious police last night blasted Brown's incredible 'stupidity' after he was locked up for six months.

He was also rapped as being childish and immature by his own solicitor.

After the bomb threat was made, the shopping complex was quickly searched and cleared by police but no-one was evacuated.

Brown, of Norwich, admitted making the bomb hoax on March 6.

He told police his brother was working in Burger King and 'wanted to go home early' so he'd asked if he could ring police and 'make something up'.

Brown asked to enter the witness box at Norwich Crown Court yesterday to tell Judge Stephen Holt he was 'very sorry'.

Sentencing the teenager to six months in a young offenders' institution, Judge Holt said it was an 'unsophisticated prank' and branded Brown a 'foolish young man'.

But he said he would be 'failing in his public duty' if he did not pass an immediate custodial sentence

[Lord Jim]

Yeah, you can kind of tell just from looking at the guy that his six months in the nick wont cause him to miss any Mensa meetings...

[Sue U]

Gingers.

[Sean]

He was also rapped as being childish and immature by his own solicitor.

I certainly hope that wasn't one of your typos Strop...