A house burglar who crept into people’s homes in Rhyl while they slept was branded a mini crime wave by a crown court who jailed him.
Levi Andrew Davidson, 20, was sentenced to 26 months youth custody when he appeared at Mold Crown Court.
Judge Niclas Parry told him that his offending has escalated dramatically in seriousness.
Two had been committed while the occupants slept in their beds – and a child of three had been disturbed.
Then, while on bail, he committed a third burglary while the occupants slept, took car keys from the premises and drove off without a licence or insurance.
“Only a significant custodial sentence can be justified,” the judge said.
But he took into account his guilty pleas, that he was lightly convicted and had no previous convictions for house burglary.
The court heard that footwear linked the defendant to two of the burglaries.
He claimed he had come under pressure to commit the offences.
Davidson, of Maes Cwm in Rhyl, received concurrent ten month and 12 month sentences for house burglaries at LLys Bodnant and Penymaes in Rhyl – together with a consecutive 14 month sentence for a further burglary while on bail at Gellifor in Rhyl.
He also admitted theft, handling and handling stolen goods.
Prosecuting barrister Jade Tufail told how the burglaries in October and November had an effect on the occupants.
One told how she no longer felt safe in her own home.
At Llys Bodnant, the occupants woke up to find that a lap top had been stolen.
The same night a burglary occurred at Penymaes when the occupant woke up to deal with her crying child.
She heard footsteps downstairs and the front door opening and believed it was her husband.
But in the morning they found that e house had been burgled and her purse was found in a nearby garden.
While on bail, he burgled a house in Gellifor, Rhyl, while the occupants watched television. They keys to a Citroen vehicle were taken and the car was driven away.
On December 7 police attended a road accident at Dyserth Bends. No charges arose from that but the defendant was arrested and then linked to the burglaries.
Interviewed, he claimed that he was put under pressure to commit the burglaries and acted as part of a group.
Defending barrister Sarah Yates said that it was accepted that the fact that the burglaries were committed at night in occupied dwellings were aggravating features.
It was his case that he had got involved in the wrong crowd.
He owed money to them and in order to discharge the debt became involved in the offences.
Davidson had admitted what he had done in the magistrates’ court.
He suffered from anxiety, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity for which he had received counselling.
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