A TEENAGE boy sent to a youth detention centre after pleading guilty to stabbing a taxi driver in Harlow has gone missing.

The sixteen-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons pleaded guilty to the following at Chelmsford Magistrates court.

On January 9th at Harlow, assaulted a male, thereby occasioning him, actual bodily harm

On January 9th at Harlow had with you, without good reason or lawful authority, in a public place The Rundells, Harlow an article which had a blade or was sharply pointed, namely a lock knife.

The teenager was made subject to a detention and training order made for four months. 

However, the courts have now reported that he has failed

to comply with doorstep curfews on 01.04.2021, 07.04.2021, 08.04.2021, 13.04.2021, 17.04.2021, 22.04.2021, 26.04.2021, 27.04.2021, 29.04.2021.

It also states that he has been missing from his placement as of the 12.5.21 – 17.5.21 and again from the 17.5.21 and is still missing.