UK COMPUTER STOLEN FROM GARAGE Joyrider Stole Keanes Old Car (from Evening Times):

A TEENAGE joyrider who stole a £105,000 Bentley was shocked when he was told it was ex-Celtic star Roy Keane's former car.

Michael Tait, 17, escaped detention for the theft but warned he faced a long sentence if he took another wrong step.

The teenager crawled through a window at the upmarket Glenvarigill Garage in Edinburgh's Fort Kinnaird with friend Thomas McKenzie after closing time on August 28.
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They stole a key to the silver Continental Coupe from an office cabinet.

McKenzie, 18, then filled up the car with petrol. CCTV footage shows the Bentley being driven away.

The joyriders took it to their home patch in nearby Niddrie before ditching it. Police later found it abandoned but undamaged.

An earlier hearing had been told police quickly tracked McKenzie after the joyride and found him with a laptop computer stolen from the garage.

McKenzie, who pleaded guilty to the same charge as Tait and who also admitted stealing the laptop, was earlier sentenced to six months at a young offenders' institution and disqualified from driving for two years.

Outside court, Tait, from Edinburgh, said: 'When I found out in the police cells it was Keane's old car I couldn't believe it.

'I was driving it, I think I might have gone up to 120mph, it was quite a buzz, but I'm not going to do it again or I will get the jail."

Sheriff James Scott placed him on an intensive probation order for two years.