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Jail for ‘mean’ burglar who looted his great aunt’s home

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A crown court judge had labelled a prolific burglar as “mean” after she jailed him for looting his great aunt’s house.

Kai Farmer, aged 21, of Hembury Place, Briar Hill, was sentenced to 32 months in prison this week after he admitted raiding his relative’s house in Friars Avenue, Far Cotton.

He stole a computer, jewellery, food, a digital camera and other items, after breaking into the house by smashing a window in the back door.

Farmer took goods worth £1,600 during the raid, on February 12, this year. However, the bungling burglar was foiled after police discovered he had dropped personal documents belonging to him inside the house.

Sentencing him at Northampton Crown Court, Judge Lynn Tayton QC said: “While she (the victim) was away you got into the house by breaking a back door and you carried out an untidy search, goods to the value of £1,600 were taken and you were linked to this by documents you dropped in the house.”

She added: “As you now accept, the victim and her family have done a lot to help you and this was a particularly mean offence.

“They do not have any insurance so they have to replace these items themselves.

“I understand you have learning difficulties, but you don’t seem to get the fact they are the ones who are damaged by this in all sorts of ways.”

She said Farmer, who has previous convictions for burglary, was eligible for a minimum sentence of three years after racking up his “third strike”.

However, the judge gave him credit for his early guilty plea, reducing the sentence to 32 months.


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