THE 15-year-old accomplice of a 14-year-old who got drunk on stolen lager and smashed windows of the science block at Grainville School has been ordered to do community service.

The pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, stole a crate of Grolsch from outside the Wine Warehouse at Five Oaks on 21 August. They then set upon Grainville School with a group of other youngsters and took tools from a block which was due for demolition. Throughout the evening they drank the lager and, armed with a pickaxe and a club hammer, went on a smashing spree, breaking 45 double glazed windows in the new school block and causing nearly £9,000 worth of damage. The Youth Court heard yesterday that the 14-year-old boy has already been put on probation for 12 months. Youth Panel chairman Ian Le Marquand said that this was the harshest form of a non-custodial penalty that the younger boy could have received, because he is not old enough to be sentenced to a community service order. However, the 15-year-old, who is old enough to face the penalty, was ordered to serve 90 hours.