A TEENAGER being hunted for clubbing a police officer with a pair of bolt-cutters was found days later hiding in a shed with a newspaper cutting about the attack.

Ambrose Richmond had kept a story from The Northern Echo about his attack on PC James Rouse in Victoria Embankment, Darlington, and bragged to a friend about it.

A court heard yesterday that the 19-year-old said: "Did you hear what I did to that copper - broke his jaw in three places."

The officer's jaw was not broken, but he had three grazes to his chin, a bruise to his head and had to have a skull x-ray.

David Lamb, prosecuting, told a court that the attack, on April 14, was the latest in a series of offences the teenager had committed.

He was also in court to be sentenced yesterday for two charges of driving while disqualified and without insurance, obstructing a police officer, burglary, theft, assault and being drunk in charge of a bicycle.

Judge George Moorhouse adjourned the case for a fortnight because prosecutors did not have details of an alleged offence of breaching a court order.

Richmond, of Geneva Road, Darlington, will return to court on August 25, and was remanded in custody until that appearance at Teesside Crown Court.

He admitted the offences outlined.