Mother of teenager charged with attempted robbery in Toowoomba apologises for her son’s actions

• Boy, 15, allegedly tried to steal family’s Audi
• The same boy has allegedly stolen two cars before

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was allegedly caught trying to steal the keys to a family’s car has apologised for her son’s behaviour – but says she can’t do anything about it.

A Toowoomba family woke up as two teenage boys rummaged through their home trying to steal the keys for their Audi, at about 6am on Thursday.

One of the teens managed to flee the scene, but his mate wasn’t so lucky and was captured by the homeowners and held inside the home until the police arrived.

There was no violence between the boy and the homeowners before he was arrested.

‘The perpetrator told us that they were wanting to steal the Audi,’ the homeowner said.

‘It is out of control, and more people are going to get hurt if they’re left, allowed on the streets’.

His mother, whose identity can not be revealed, told the media she is ‘sorry’ for the victims because she can’t do anything about her son’s crimes.

‘He keeps going to jail, and the people there keep putting him out,’ she said.

Police charged the teenager with one count of entering a dwelling with intent.

He is expected to appear at Toowoomba Children’s Court.

That same teenager was allegedly in a stolen vehicle that crashed through a BP service station near Toowoomba over the weekend.

Last year he was involved in another incident in another alleged stolen car. A 13- year-old was his accomplice who died in that crash.

It comes after two people were charged after an angry mob of nearly 100 people formed at the footsteps of alleged criminals in Rockhampton on Sunday.

The mob was led by ex-kickboxer turned One Nation candidate, Torin O’Brien, amid a surge in youth crime in the city.

The protesters gathered in Central Park in North Rockhampton, surrounding two homes, banging on windows and doors.

‘I 100 per cent understand people are frustrated and they’re angry,’ Detective Inspector Luke Peachey told reporters on Thursday.

‘I’m a resident here too, I’ve lived here for 25 years now – it disgusts me some of the behaviour going on now with our property offences.

‘But the last thing we can have is untrained people going around and trying to take matters into their own hands.’

The two locals were charged with trespassing offences.