A 16-year-old youth was locked up in tears just days after his schoolgirl sweetheart gave birth to their daughter.

The teenager was shown no mercy after breaching an anti social behaviour order (Asbo).

The court heard he had held his little girl only twice before appearing in court.

At South Tyneside magistrates court, he was sentenced to three months behind bars after magistrates heard he had been caught drunk in a children's playground in August.

The teenager admitted a breach of his order, which was his second.

The court was told that the youth, from South Tyneside, was given the order in February last year after a string of public order offences.

One of the conditions was that he doesn't drink alcohol in public.

But mitigation from his solicitor that his client was changing his ways fell on deaf ears.

Even the news that his girlfriend had given birth to his child on Monday wasn't enough to stop the bench sentencing him to a six-month detention and training order.

It means he will spend the next three months in custody, then three months under strict supervision after his release.

When the sentence was announced, the youth's mother, who had sat beside her son throughout the hearing, ran out of court in tears.

And when security guards came into court to handcuff him and lead him to the cells, he broke down in tears and sobbed to magistrates:

"I've only held her twice. You've ruined my life.

"I've got no job, my baby has just been born and now you're going to stick me in jail."