A TEENAGER had the moped he saved for months to buy stolen and set alight.

Tom Adams-Smith, 16, found his beloved moped had been taken from outside his home on Jestys Avenue, Broadwey, Weymouth, on Monday morning.

Dorset Police later located the vehicle burned out in undergrowth on a field near to Primula Close, Littlemoor.

The former All Saints School pupil has hit out against the ‘mindless’ thieves after spending more than a year saving money from his part-time job.

He said: “I am so angry that my moped has been stolen and now there is no way I can get it back. I’ve spent more than £1,000 on it including insurance.

“It is just needless and mindless crime. The police rang me on Thursday to tell me my moped had been found in a bush in Littlemoor.

“It was weird because I saw someone driving it on Monday but it was too late to follow them so we told the police.

“I was staying at my dad’s house when it was taken. I came home from work on the Sunday and woke up the day after to find it had gone.

“At first I thought my dad had just moved it but when I asked him we realised what had happened.

“I work part-time at Sharkys in Weymouth and saved for ages to buy that moped so now I’ve got to do it all over again.

“I’m planning on working all of this summer as I’ve just finished my exams in my last year at school.”

His mum Fiona Adams, who owns the Waffle On shop in Weymouth, said her son had worked really hard to earn the money for his own moped.

She said: “It is so awful and such a shame for Tom, he worked in all his spare time to raise the money for that moped. I told him if he wanted one he would have to buy it himself so he did.

“For someone to just set it on fire just seems really pointless. We went up to see it and it was burned out in a bush.”

A spokesman for Dorset Police said: “Police received a report of a theft of a Gilera Moped from Jestys Avenue between 5.30pm on Sunday, June 17 and 9.15am the following morning.

“On the evening of Monday, June 18 a moped was found burned out on the same day it was reported missing. No arrests have yet been made but investigations are continuing.”