A TEENAGER has been charged with 21 offences including 14 burglaries.

The 16-year-old boy from Laindon was arrested on Wednesday.

He was charged this morning, Friday, November 25 with four burglaries in Billericay in Dedham Road, Foxhunter Walk, Coach Mews, The Meadow Way; four burglaries in Basildon in Gun Hill, Falstones, Plumberow and Oldwyk; four in Leigh-on-Sea in Leighview Drive, Briarwood Drive, Priorywood Drive and Picketts Avenue; one in Abenberg Way, Brentwood and one in Southwell Road, Benfleet.

He was also charged with seven counts of taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent. Four were in Basildon, one in Benfleet and two in Billericay.

He is due to appear at Basildon Magistrates' Court this morning.