Driving school
23 June 2009
Footage showing the exploits of two sixth-formers who drove their cars along corridors in a Wiltshire school for an end of term prank has been posted on the internet.
The two 18-year-olds, Ben Wilson and Oli Stavrakakis, were given police cautions for causing criminal damage by driving their cars into Malmesbury School.
Police and firefighters were called after the Year 13 pupils squeezed their vehicles - a red Suzuki Swift and a green Peugeot 106 - through the main entrance on May 21 before they finished school to go on study leave.
No-one was injured, but the pair were arrested, taken into custody at Melksham police station and later cautioned after scraping a pillar.
Both teenagers were then temporarily excluded from school but allowed back to sit their A-levels.
Footage of the incident has now appeared on YouTube after being filmed on a mobile phone by another student, who can be heard laughing and exclaiming "How did they get in?".
While classmates and teachers stand around looking bemused by the stunt, the cars, with a front-seat passenger in each, drive one at a time along the main corridor before performing three-point turns to drive out.
One teacher walks past the camera and does a double take at the sight before another rushes over to the green Peugeot as it is half way through its manoeuvre and demands the driver turn off the engine.
Officers had to drive the cars out of the building through a fire exit.
Head teacher Tim Gilson said in reports earlier this month: "They are not bad lads, either of them, but they have just done something really stupid. It is a great shame. I think they are fully aware now of what they have done."
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