Andrew Spellman was sentenced to 876 days after pleading guilty to burglary
A PROLIFIC teenage burglar serving time for a string of break-ins has been brought back to court to admit four more offences.
Andrew Spellman was sentenced to 876 days in a young offenders' institution in July after pleading guilty to a Briton Ferry burglary — but the 19-year-old was back in the dock today to admit to another burglary in the town.
Spellman, of Parc Newydd, Briton Ferry, also asked for three break-ins, attempted break-ins and thefts stretching back as far as 2010 to be taken into account when he appeared at Swansea Crown Court.
Kevin Jones, for the prosecution, said that in the early hours of June 30 Spellman broke into a house of a woman in her 60s in Ruskin Street in Briton Ferry and stole a tablet computer.
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However, the victim initially thought he son had borrowed the item and the incident wasn't reported to police straight away — by the time it was, Spellman had already broken into a house in nearby Shelone Road and had been arrested after being traced by a police dog and handler. The canine cop had found Spellman hiding under a camper van - with a set of stolen BMW car keys - and when officers searched his house they found a stolen 40-inch television which he had tried to hide under the mattress on his bed.
Kevin Jones said that following "an investigation and intelligence received" officers visited Spellman in custody in October and he confessed to committing the Ruskin Street burglary on the same day as he had broken into the Shelone Road property — and he asked for an attempted burglary at Video World in Port Talbot in 2010, a theft from a car in Port Talbot in 2013, and a burglary in Taibach in 2014 to be taken into account.
The Ruskin Street and Shelone Road break-ins had been committed just days after Spellman was released from an 18-month sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to a burglary — and had asked for 10 more to be taken into account.
John Hipkin, in mitigation, said his client had pleaded guilty at an early stage and had co-operated with the police.
Judge Keith Thomas sentenced the teenager to 876 days in custody.
The judge told him: "Any dwelling house burglary is a serious offence because of the fright and harm of the householders."
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