O’Mara: jail for the office block burglar

A builder caught burgling an eight floor apartment has been jailed for nine months. Daniel O’Mara, 46, was heard rummaging around the flat in the Rookwood House block in St Mary’s, Barking, on 3 February this year. O’Mara thought 50 of the 72 flats were unoccupied and was in the middle of burgling one when neighbours across the hall called the police. He was detained with a holdall full of tools before he was able to make off with any…