A young man has been given “one last chance” after failing to do unpaid work he was ordered to do after crashing a stolen car.

Cameron Stanton, aged 20, of Duncombe Road, Great Lever, had been given a 12-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to crashing a stolen Vauxhall Astra into another car with a couple and a baby inside earlier this year.

He avoided a jail sentence but was brought back to Bolton Crown Court after missing some of the 200 hours of unpaid work he had been ordered to do.

Judge Timothy Clayson said: “I’m going to give you one last chance, every morning when you get up I want you to say to yourself, I’m on my last chance as far as the crown court is concerned.”

Stanton had been spared jail in May this year after the court heard how a Vauxhall Astra was reported missing from Beaumont Road in Bolton on January 30.

The car was spotted at 4pm that afternoon and Stanton, who was driving alongisde passenger Coby Crompton, did not stop for police and accelerated to speeds of 70mph on Wigan Road before moving onto Chorley New Road.

Stanton was arrested after abandoning the Astra after hitting two other cars, one of which was carrying a couple and their eight-month-old baby.

At the time, Judge Elliot Knopf decided Stanton had “shown remorse” and suspended his sentence.

Since then, the court heard how Stanton had found regular work over the last few months from Mondays to Fridays between 7am and 4pm.

But he had missed some of his community service work on Saturdays which he was ordered to undertake alongside 32 rehabilitation activity requirement days paying compensation of £400 to the man whose car he hit.

Judge Clayson said: “You’re at risk of throwing all that away, job, (and) accommodation that’s working if you don’t do your community service.”

But he said Stanton was “an intelligent young guy with your whole life ahead of you” and gave him one last chance to complete his unpaid work before he next appears in court on September 5.