A BURGLAR WAS CAUGHT RED-HANDED IN HIS VICTIM’S BE

A BURGLAR WAS CAUGHT RED-HANDED IN HIS VICTIM’S BEDROOM
AFTER POLICE WERE CALLED BY A SUSPICIOUS PASSER-BY.

MARK DAVEY, 26, WAS NABBED BY TWO POLICE OFFICERS AS HE
TRIED TO ESCAPE THROUGH A BROKEN BEDROOM WINDOW, SAID MR GRAHAM
LODGE, PROSECUTING.

BUT HIS ACCOMPLICE MADE A DASH FOR FREEDOM, DESPITE AN
OFFICER CLINGING TO HIS FOOT.

THE SECOND BURGLAR SHOOK OFF HIS PURSUER AND DISAPPEARED.

HE WAS NEVER CAUGHT, ACTON CROWN COURT HEARD.

POLICE WERE CALLED TO MISS HELEN GLEESON’S STREATLEY ROAD,

KILBURN, GROUND FLOOR FLAT AT NOON, THREE HOURS AFTER MISS GLEESON

LEFT HOME.

THEY WERE ALERTED BY A PHONE CALL FROM A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC,

WHO DIDN’T GIVE HIS NAME.

THE OFFICERS FOUND THE FLAT’S FRONT DOOR FORCED OPEN AND
SAW SOMEONE INSIDE, COUNSEL SAID.

THE STARTLED BURGLARS WERE CAUGHT RANSACKING MISS GLEESON’S

BEDROOM, AFTER MAKING ‘ A VERY THROUGH SEARCH’ OF THE REST OF HER

FLAT, THE COURT HEARD.

AND THE OFFICERS FOUND TWO PLASTIC BAGS CONTAINING #350
WORTH OF GOODS INCLUDING A CAMERA AND TELEVISION, STACKED BY THE
FRONT DOOR.

ANOTHER #120 WORTH OF JEWELLERY AND A CHEQUEBOOK AND CHEQUECARD

WERE NEVER RECOVERED, COUNSEL SAID.

DAVEY, A REGISTERED DRUG ADDICT, TOLD POLICE HE HAD MET THE

OTHER MAN, WHOM HE KNEW ONLY AS TONY, EARLIER THAT DAY WHILE

COLLECTING HIS METHADONE PRESCRIPTION.

MR NICHOLAS BAKER, DEFENDING, SAID DAVEY, WHO HAD BEEN

A DRUG ADDICT FOR NINE YEARS, PLAYED A MINOR ROLE IN THE BURGLARY.

‘IT WAS TONY’S IDEA AND IT WAS TONY WHO KICKED THE DOOR
DOWN AND GOT IN’, MR BAKER SAID.

DAVEY, UNEMPLOYED, OF CLEMENT CLOSE, WILLESDEN, WAS JAILED
FOR 12 MONTHS AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO BURGLARY ON JULY 9 THIS
YEAR.

PASSING SENTENCE, JUDGE WORTHINGTON TOLD HIM ‘RESIDENTIAL
BURGLARIES SUCH AS THIS CAUSE A GREAT DEAL OF DISTRESS AND A
GREAT DEAL OF ANXIETY’.

ENDS.

?EOM