Jail for teenage Willerby burglar who climbed drainpipe while woman was in shower
A BURGLAR who targeted the elderly has been locked up for 18 months.
Nathan Heath, 18, committed three burglaries, one after the other, in Willerby and even targeted two homeowners in their 80s.
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JAILED: Nathan Heath.
Neighbours raised the alarm and a search operation was launched by police.
Officers caught Heath a few hundred yards away, hiding inside a house.
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Judge Michael Mettyear told Heath: "House burglaries are always regarded as serious by the courts and here you were involved in a spate of them.
"You were determined and went from one place to another and two of the properties had very old people in them.
"People are terribly upset by people getting into their properties and going through their belongings and sometimes they never recover from the shock of having their property defiled in that way.
"As you know, custody is inevitable here, nothing else can be justified."
Heath, of no fixed address, has been sentenced to 18 months in a Young Offenders Institute.
All the offences happened on October 30 last year.
Heath first targeted a house in Fulford Crescent, Willerby, where he climbed up the drainpipe while the young woman who lived there was in the shower.
She saw Heath opening her bathroom window and when he saw her, he claimed he wanted to inform her someone was breaking into her shed before he made off.
Shortly afterwards, he went to the home of an 82-year-old man who lived near the first victim.
Prosecutor Nick Adlington said: "He turned round to find himself confronted by the defendant in his hallway. Heath said he was there to collect a scrap washing mach- ine. The complainant escorted him off the premises."
Just 40 minutes later, Heath then targeted an 87-year-old woman in The Parkway, Willerby.
He raided her house, stealing her purse and property, and was seen leaving her home by her neighbours who called the police.
The police launched a search for the burglar after receiving three calls and Heath was found hiding in the bedroom of a house nearby.
Heath pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to three burglaries and, under Operation Cleanslate, admitted another 17 burglaries.
The operation allows defendants to admit further offences to receive a lesser sentence.
Comments
by Hunnyb_2252
Tuesday, January 15 2013, 1:52AM
“Is there any wonder kids turn out like this? Where's the parental discipline? If I had stolen a 1p sweet my mother would have knocked me from one end of the street to the other, anything more serious and she would have nearly killed me. Plus, we had respect for the police then. The government (in it's infinate wisdom) has banned parents from chastising their kids, hence more ASBOs and young offenders and the police are becoming scared of the kids.”
by Tetleyt
Monday, January 14 2013, 8:43AM
“HDM - Why is machine hyphenated??!!”
by Tetleyt
Monday, January 14 2013, 8:43AM
“Spain2010 - where does it say that he's been on remand for 3 months??!”
by Spain2010
Sunday, January 13 2013, 3:24PM
“@ ArthurHunt – I couldn't agree more! 18 months now, but has been on remand almost 3 months, so should be out before summer. I read a book once where prisoners were well looked after, fed well and made to exercise to keep fit and healthy. They were monitored by doctors, who when a law abiding citizens needed a body part, a stock of donors were there ready and waiting! Reduced prison population and reduced NHS waiting lists in one hit. At the very least scum like this should be neutered.”
by ArthurHunt
Sunday, January 13 2013, 9:45AM
“18 months really means he will be out in 9 as no one serves the term decided by the court as the jails are full and the politicians persistently refuse to crack down properly on crime and build more jails to serve an increasing population.
Instead of 18 months it should have been 20 years with time added on for bad behaviour. Then we the people would feel safer, but oh no the lecturing do-gooders have infested the jobs with real power in society (education, courts, media, top civil servants, parliament and the judiciary) so much over the last 30 years it's all a bad joke on decent people who never harmed anyone and never committed any crime.
Then these elected idiots wonder why decent people have lost confidence in the 'system'...”
by b00001
Sunday, January 13 2013, 7:30AM
“So looking at the career plan you need to commit loads of easy crimes and log them down then when you hit a biggy and get caught you have some credits to play in order to buy your sentence down. This beats working and paying tax for a living.”
by Preebo
Sunday, January 13 2013, 7:25AM
“"Judge Michael Mettyear told Heath: "House burglaries are always regarded as serious by the courts "
Lets see, 17 burglaries admitted to, plus 3 here = 20.
An 18 month sentence = less than one month per burglary”
by zeebling
Sunday, January 13 2013, 12:32AM
“scerm”
by Nosey101
Saturday, January 12 2013, 11:19PM
“Small minded pathetic people look at you such sad excuses you really believe the stories papers tell you get your facts right before you start gossiping such sad people.”
by robd63
Saturday, January 12 2013, 7:18PM
“I wonder if "of no fixed abode" means his home has wheels.
Just a thought.”