A burglar with “an appalling record” was caught after he left a business card with his name on it at the scene of one of his crimes.
Raymond Green, 34, of Heol Gwyrosydd, Treboeth, Swansea, left the card which had been given to him by a probation officer - who had written Green’s name on it - at a house in Clasemont Road, Morriston, Swansea .
Green, who was jailed for seven years, had taken keys there to a a family’s Renault Clio car which was later found burnt out.
Dyfed Thomas, prosecuting at Swansea Crown Court , said Green, during a spate of crimes this summer, had also twice targeted a couple in their 60s.
He is thought to have used a small, pink mountain bike to get to and from the scenes of his crimes.
'I'll beat you up and kill you'
Mr Thomas said he first broke into the couple’s home at a sheltered housing complex in Penlan, Swansea at around 4am on July 3 this year.
Dyfed Thomas, prosecuting, said the husband heard a bang in the living room and was confronted by Green who snarled: “I’ll beat you up and kill you. Where is the money?”
Mr Thomas said the husband suffered severe arthritis and his wife had recently been in hospital.
The court heard Green, who entered through a window in the couple’s lounge, found a pot containing around £1,000 in coins and made off with it.
Mr Thomas said in August this year, Green again entered the couple’s home, once again through a window, this time at around 2.30am.
The prosecutor said: “Green again asked the husband ‘where is the money?’.
“He pushed him and he fell to the floor, his arthritis making it rather easy for him to fall over.
“He walked past him into the bedroom where the householder’s wife woke up to find Green going through a chest of drawers.
“He said to her:’Where’s your purse? Where’s the money. Where’s that money box?’”
Business card at the scene
Mr Thomas said asking for ‘that money box’ was a reference to the pot of coins Green had found on his previous break-in at the same house.
On this occasion, Green took cigarettes, a lighter and £20 in cash from the husband’s pocket before leaving.
On August 26 this year, after police made inquiries about the business card found at the house in Clasemont Rod, Morriston, on August 4, Green was arrested hiding in an alcove.
Although Green initially “made no meaningful replies”, he later admitted to twice burgling the couple at the sheltered housing complex, the burglary at Clasemone Road where he left the business card and another break-in at a house in Beaconsview Road, Swansea.
Andrew Evans, defending, said his client was struggling with an addiction to Class A drugs.
He said Green offended to finance the illicit substances.
'Appalling record'
Judge Thomas told Green before sentencing him to seven years in prison: “You’ve an appalling record of offences of dishonesty, particularly of dwelling house burglaries.
“The last time you were sentenced, in 2014 you had 14 months and, as is usual, on reaching the half way point of your sentence you were released on licence.
“By my calculations, you stayed out of trouble for three months before a spate of offences in the Penlan and Morriston areas.”
Judge Thomas said it seemed that previous jail terms for burglaries had “failed to deter” Green from his crimes.
He told him: “As a result I am going to keep you out of the public’s hair for as long as possible by jailing you for a total of seven years.”
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