A TEENAGER with a £200-a-day cocaine habit, downed 20 bottles of lager, before breaking into a house, stealing a car and crashing into a bus.

Christopher Legg, aged 18, of Buile Hill Avenue, Little Hulton, pleaded guilty to burglary; driving while disqualified; driving with excess alcohol and no insurance and aggravated vehicle taking when he appeared at Bolton Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

He asked for 11 other charges to be taken into consideration.

The court heard Legg had been disqualified from driving for 30 months for a previous offence last August.

The teenager, who admitted to having a £200-a-day-cocaine habit, had drunk 20 bottles of lager on a night-out with friends before breaking into the house in Park Road, Westhoughton, in the early hours of Tuesday 9 January. While the homeowner and his family slept upstairs, Legg stole a watch and the keys to a Vauxhall Polo car parked in the driveway.

Drunk ,and high on drugs, he drove off in the car and collided with a bus in Salford Road, Bolton.

The bus driver heard a loud bang but initially thought he had just gone over a pot hole. It was only when he returned his depot that he discovered the damage to the rear of the bus.

Police officers alerted by the sound of the crash found Legg parked nearby, trapped in the damaged vehicle and banging on a window.

He was arrested and found to be in possession of the watch taken in the burglary.

Legg was denied bail and remanded in custody to be committed for sentencing at Bolton Crown Court on January 31.