A 12-year-old burglar is to receive anger management training after raiding a flat of £1,500 of electrical equipment.

The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, raided the property in Parish Gate Drive, Sidcup, taking a flat screen TV, laptop, DVD player, mobile phone and sat nav system.

He was confronted by a witness who saw him fleeing with the property, but he escaped by scaling a fence.

Now he has been handed an 18-month supervision order – including anger management training – and ordered to pay his victim £300 compensation.

He sat with his mother at Bexley Youth Court last Wednesday as magistrate Peter Wolski warned him: “This is your last chance to put your life back in order.”

The boy from Eltham was also issued an interim ASBO last month.

Now aged 13, he denied the burglary, which took place in November, until changing his plea to guilty on the day of his trial.

His lawyer said his mother had lost control of her child: “He was not going to school, and was doing whatever he wanted. But he appears to have turned a corner.”

His mother said: “He was hanging around with the wrong crowd, but now he just sits at home a lot of the time.

“He wants to get back into school.”