Wrexham,North Wales - Man burgled his mother's home in Wrexham while she was on holiday

Published date: 04 March 2016 | 

Published by: Staff reporter
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A MAN burgled his own mother’s home while she was on holiday.

His mother had been kind to him and gave him food and money to pay rent before she left.

But Gavin Davies repaid her by breaking into her home near Wrexham, stealing items from her home, and using his stepfather’s credit card to order a new mobile phone and ipad.

Davies, 33, admitted burglary at Victoria Street in Rhos, but avoided a jail sentence when he appeared at Mold Crown Court yesterday.

He was given an 18-month community order with alcohol treatment and rehabilitation and he was ordered to pay £100 compensation towards the insurance excess.

Judge Niclas Parry told him: “That was mean.. from your own mother!”

She was a person who cared for him and one could only imagine how hurt she must have felt, he said.

But he had pleaded guilty at an early stage, had been out of trouble for three years and never committed a burglary before.

“You were a desperate man at the time,” he said, but was now pulling his life together.

Prosecuting barrister Frances Willmott said last July Mrs Beverley Williams and her partner went on holiday.

Davies forced a window and an internal garage door and had clearly stayed at her home for some days.

He stole a laptop, a mobile phone, an iPad and other items including alcohol and used his stepfather’s cards to purchase a mobile phone and an ipad.

While on holiday, his mother received information that he may be at her home. She rang her own number, he answered and said he entered using a back door key.

Later that day the stepfather received an email confirming an iPad had been purchased, but when challenged Davies denied being responsible.

When they returned home they found a window had been damaged to the value of £700 and items had been stolen. 

It was covered by insurance but they had to pay £100 excess.

Interviewed, Davies said he had been made homeless at the time and was desperate.

The prosecutor said the mother had described her disbelief and turmoil in a victim impact statement.

She felt pain, sadness, disappointment and grief and she told how reporting her own son to the police was the hardest thing she had ever had to do.

But she said he hoped he would get the help he needed for his depression and mental health problems.

Matthew Dunford, defending, said he would not mitigate when the judge indicated the sentence that he had in mind.

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