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The 16-year-old has pleaded guilty to all five charges and is due to be sentenced

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A teenage boy drove a dumper truck into several new-build houses in Darlington, destroying six of them.

The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, stole the JCB on 27 April this year and rammed the truck into seven unoccupied houses on Hurworth Moor.