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SG teen learnt how to hot-wire motorcycles from YouTube to steal them

By Wong Shiying
The teen, who cannot be named as he had committed the offences while he was under 18, was sentenced to at least a year’s reformative training. — Photo by Bill Oxford on Unsplash

SINGAPORE: A 17-year-old youth taught himself to hot-wire motorcycles by watching YouTube videos so he could steal the motorbikes with his friends.

He would cut the ignition wires to get the engine going, the court heard.

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