MECHANIC Steven Randall used his trade skills to help a friend hot-wire a car in a dealer's compound.

His fingerprints were on the car when the police found it at Aggborough, magistrates were told.

Randall, 19, of Cobham Road, Kidderminster, was bailed for a pre-sentence report when he admitted taking the car without permission.

He had helped to start it but had not driven it, said his solicitor, Ruth Edwards.