Horrible thing to happen to you buddy, hope everyone at home is feeling a bit better about it all now that the police know who it is.

Fair play to you for getting all the cameras set up though! What a difference they make in helping identify the culprits.

Anyway fingers crossed you get some sort of decent outcome.

Providing cctv footage has its downsides, we had a couple of bikes nicked from work which was captured on our cctv, police arrived and I gave them a DVD of the footage, they caught them and they were brought to court but because I had provided the cctv evidence I was summonsed to appear as a witness, fortunately they absconded and case dident go ahead but I was not comfortable with the potential intimidation etc that could have ensued once they knew who I was

I think that's what might happen here. The police are coming back tomorrow for my statement, and me signing something about providing them with the cctv footage.

Not nice when they know where you live.

Super Uwe said:

Horrible thing to happen to you buddy, hope everyone at home is feeling a bit better about it all now that the police know who it is.

Fair play to you for getting all the cameras set up though! What a difference they make in helping identify the culprits.

Anyway fingers crossed you get some sort of decent outcome.

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My wife is feeling a bit better now. The police reckoned he was most probably trying to see if there were keys on the shelf through the letterbox.

My next door neighbour called earlier. He fits security systems and has numerous cameras around his property. He checked his footage after I called on him yesterday. The same guy went onto his drive and tried the front door and then his van, both were locked.
Was he actually going to go inside if it was unlocked? Flaming looney!

One scumbag in custody!

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One scumbag in custody!

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Got the unit back?

Not yet, I am unsure if they have recovered it?

I bet they dawn raided him as they called me this morn at 8:30 to say they need my statement before the interview.

I have to sign it later, and I'll ask if they have it.

Need to call tomtom now to see if they can give me the serial number of the unit.

Sentencing today for this.

The CCTV was instrumental in proving the case. He's also put his hands up to attempted theft from the other 2 cars we own, and attempted burglary of my house, and my neighbours.

He's also put pleaded guilty to another burglary in which he sloppily left his prints.

They can't prove the other 40 or so offenses which have his name all over them!!

Any bets on how long he'll get? Bear in mind he has previous,

I'll kick off with 4 years

deeyup said:

Sentencing today for this.

Any bets on how long he'll get? Bear in mind he has previous,

I'll kick off with 4 years

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Don't hold your breath for that!

Those of us that work hard for all the stuff these toe rags rip off naturally feel some punishment involving firing squards or gallows.

But to our liberal judges you will have no doubt flaunted your wealth to a poor misfortunate that has obviously no other way of attaining such vital items as water, food, heat, satnavs and car stereos!

The poor soul will be seen as in urgent need of a sailing holiday and a forthnights rest at Centre Parks or, at worse a laughable fine they can't pay without robbing again!

Sounds like they'll already held their hands up for this, so will no doubt plea guilty, so the fine will only amount to two nights on the rob!

If he's got 2 previous convictions for domestic burglary, on a third conviction the court must impose a 3 year custodial sentence, unless there are mitigating circumstances. Details here:

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Burglary_Definitive_Guideline_web_final.pdf

Don't blame the judges for what you might think of as lenient sentences. Most of the time, their hands are tied by the sentencing guidelines. No doubt they occasionally get things wrong (as the Daily Mail likes to point out with monotonous regularity) but usually a sentence which looks absurdly lenient is explicable by mitigating factors that the judge is required to take account of.

The sentence was postponed till April 4.

He "should" get a few years.

here's a link to some of his previous work. With such a distictive surname, google works a treat.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/burglaries-crackdown-results-huge-drop-2217835

He got 4 years that time.

His name brings plenty of search results. He's one of those prolific offenders where it would totally benefit the comunity to keep locked up indefinitley.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, then. Pity it costs so much taxpayers' money to keep the likes of him in chokey, and out of mischief. With previous like that, he's going down big-time this time - and all for a sat-nav. Stupid or what?

The results are in, the votes have been counted and verified,

4 years inside!

That'll do for now. I'm sure another crime spree will follow once he gets out though.

deeyup said:

4 years inside!

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Thanks for posting the update.

Hopefully this will serve as a deterrent to other would-be thieving scumbags.

It shouldn't be hard to design an 'anti-theft' function into a satnav which will silently 'phone home with its location if it's removed from a vehicle - most of the necessary technology is already built into the unit.

Placed in plain view in an unlocked car, such a unit would make an excellent honeypot trap which could potentially lead the police to an Alladin's cave of stolen treasure.

That would be the icing on the cake, following a car to asda for instance, waiting till they get out and approaching saying give me back my tomtom!

A similar thing happened to my friend. His £1200 mountain bike was stolen. He put out the feelers to find out who took it, managed to narrow it down and then arrange a meet with the thief to buy it back for £400.

The guy had a big shock when my mate and his brother showed up with no money!