'Spiderboy' held
A 14-year-old boy, nicknamed Spiderboy and Ratboy 2 after numerous convictions and escapes from custody, was sent to a secure unit for three years by North Shields youth court, after being found guilty of assaulting his foster parents' nine- year-old son, whom he had ridden a bicycle over and punched.
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