Raider broke into Hanley home in broad daylight
BURGLAR Anthony Adams has been jailed for three years after admitting his role in a daytime break-in.
Adams, aged 35, together with Joseph Upton and another man, were seen looking in driveways in Leek Road, Hanley, at 1.30pm on April 27.
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LOCKED UP: Anthony Adams.
Prosecutor Fiona Cortese yesterday told Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court a witness saw one of the men go to the front of a house and the other two disappeared from his view. Five minutes later all three men were seen walking into Ivy House Lane.
The homeowner returned home to find his front door glass panel smashed. But, the court heard, nothing was stolen.
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Upton, aged 36, and Adams, both of Garth Street, Hanley, both pleaded guilty to burglary.
Upton said he acted as a lookout. Adams, who has previous convictions for burglary, said he was out looking for work.
Rachel Thompson, mitigating for both defendants, said there was minimal damage to the house and nothing was taken.
She said Upton had no previous convictions for burglary and has managed to turn his life around since this offence. Miss Thompson conceded Adams has an unenviable record.
Recorder Stephen Lowne said Adams had an 'alarming disposition of breaking into people's houses' and jailed him for three years.
But he said Upton was in a completely different category and handed him a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, with a 12 months drug rehabilitation requirement, two years supervision and a three-month curfew from 8pm to 6am.
Comments
by SmellySock
Tuesday, October 30 2012, 12:37AM
“out looking for work,,pigs might...he is probably playing on his play station as we speak,,,the government giving these repeat offenders short sentences is a disgrace imo,,these kind of people are as perverted as jimmy savile & the rest of his ***** ring at bbc HQ utter vomit.”
by meirhayflyer
Sunday, October 28 2012, 8:02AM
“ah well 18 months free bed and breakfast for this scum. What even wore iam paying for it. Pity penal servitude is not still going, send him to burkina faso and let him rot in the jungle”
by warren-lloyd
Sunday, October 28 2012, 5:12AM
“Out looking for work! Sure. What is he, a fully trained window smasher inner.”
by leglessharry
Saturday, October 27 2012, 7:48PM
“Somebody tell me which prison this piece of scum has been sent to. I want to offer him some guidance.”
by leglessharry
Saturday, October 27 2012, 7:23PM
“Another piece of human excrement off the streets of our disgusting city. Says he was out looking for work. But I bet he's never had a job in his life. We are drowning in a sea of this filth. Pure dog dirt.”