The curse of rich and foolish parents

Britain has its fair share of spoilt brats - such as the 16-year-old who has racked up £52,000-worth of gifts this year alone.

Is this Britain's most spoilt teenager? shrills the Daily Mail above a picture of Jordan Smith.The evidence certainly suggests he's in the running.

Smith, who celebrates his 17th birthday in May, has already been bought £20,000 worth of presents for it. "I'm buying him a new, customised Vauxhall Corsa," says his mother, "and I've promised him a shopping trip to New York afterwards. I'm also going to build a log cabin next to our house. It will be good for him to have somewhere private for him to hang out." Indeed it will: somewhere he can escape his absurdly over-indulgent mother.

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