One of Bradford’s most prolific teenage offenders has been locked up for more than three years after he was caught on camera burgling a house and leading police on a terrifying high-speed pursuit.

Recorder David Wilby QC described Luke Menzies’s 20-page criminal record as frightening one for an 18-year-old and Bradford Crown Court heard that the teenager had been “an apprentice’’ to his two brothers who are already in custody.

Menzies, of Brookfields Road, Pollard Park, Bradford, hit the headlines in 2004 when at the age of 13 he became the youngest in the city to be given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order.

His offending has included burglary, robbery, and car crime and Recorder Wilby said the number of people subjected to his criminal activities over the last seven or eight years was staggering. Barrister Ray Singh, for Menzies, said his client had been the apprentice that followed in his older brothers’ footsteps because he didn’t know any other way of life.

The judge watched high-quality CCTV footage from a house in Summerbridge Crescent, Eccleshill, which was burgled by Menzies and his accomplice Bradley Coleman, 20, during the early hours of June 14.

While a couple and their three children slept, the duo could be seen on the drive using stolen keys to move a van so they could drive off in a Volkswagen Golf.

The family were not disturbed during the break-in and the pair fled with a lap-top and large screen television.

Coleman, of Haslam Close, Pollard Park, was arrested, but Menzies was not detained until he had been involved in the police pursuit a week later.

Prosecutor John Topham said Menzies stole a handbag containing £400 and car keys from a pub and then drove off in a Volkswagen Passat which was later spotted by police.

The court was shown the video footage from the pursuing patrol which reached speeds of 100mph as it tried to catch up with Menzies.

Eventually Menzies and the other man fled from the car but he was arrested two days later.

Menzies was sentenced to a total of three years and three months in a young offender institution after he admitted burglary, driving while disqualified, aggravated vehicle taking, dangerous driving, and theft.

Coleman pleaded guilty to the burglary in Eccleshill and also admitted a burglary with intent charge relating to an earlier break-in at Guiseley. Coleman was sentenced to four years custody for the two burglaries.