A teenager who hurled a petrol bomb at police lines during the Bradford riots has been made the subject of an 18-month detention and training order.

Bradford Youth Court heard yesterday that the youngster, who was only 16 at the time, was also caught on video throwing stones and pushing a blazing car towards the police ranks as the violence escalated in the White Abbey Road area.

The boy, who is now 17, pleaded guilty to a charge of riot earlier this month and the court heard that he was on the streets for about eight hours.

Imposing the detention order magistrate Audrey Hopwood told the teenager that the violence had caused untold damage to the city and had put a great many people in fear.

The teenager, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, handed himself in to police after his photograph was published in the Telegraph & Argus and he told the magistrates yesterday that he was ashamed of what he had done.

Solicitor Paul Nicholson, for the teenager, urged the magistrates to give credit for the fact that he had pleaded guilty, had no previous convictions and had turned up at court rather than disappear abroad as others had done.