A man was so high on drugs he could remember little of his early morning crime spree where he burgled two houses and a garage, and even stole cars from driveways.
In a matter of hours Wesley Hardman managed to write off two cars, including a £17,000 Lexus which he stole and crashed through a fence into a field.
Hardman, 29, of Lydstep, Warrington, admitted three burglaries in the early hours of Sunday September 18 at Chester Road, Oakenholt , Sandy Lane in Bagillt , and Llys yr Eos in Abergele .
He was jailed for three years by a judge at Mold Crown Court today for his crimes.
Prosecutor Emmalyne Downing told how one of the victims - a 61 year-old man living alone in Abergele - didn’t even realise Hardman broke into his house while he slept, pinched £400 cash and stole his Vauxhall Astra from off his drive until the police contacted him at 4am.
Later on, residents at Bagillt Road in Greenfield were woken up by the sound of screeching tyres after the car Hardman was driving crashed into a roundabout.
When they approached the crash site, they found the vehicle badly damaged and the defendant in a panic.
Hardman asked them for directions to Chester before getting a bicycle out of the boot and riding off.
At Bagillt, he burgled a house and took the keys to a £17,000 Lexus which the owner had only just bought a matter of weeks earlier.
Some time later. residents living on Chester Road in Flint called police after they saw that the Lexus had crashed through a fence into a field.
“He was still trying to drive it around in circles in the field in order to get back through the gap in the fence,” she said.
Extensive damage had been caused to the car and also to a Clio parked nearby.
In Oakenholt, a man was woken from his sleep when his house alarm went off.
When he went to investigate, he found Hardman in his garage clutching a handbag.
Hardman became abusive but left when told the police had been alerted.
'Serious criminality'
Another witness told that when the defendant approached him and for the phone number of a taxi firm, he became suspicious and kept him talking until the police arrived and arrested him.
A blood test showed that when Hardman was driving he had a number of drugs in his system including morphine, cocaine and diazepam.
Interviewed, he said he had travelled from Warrington to North Wales to see a friend, denied the offences and says cash on him had been legitimate earnings.
When finger print evidence was later put to him he made no comment.
Hardman had previous convictions for 72 offences.
Graham Robinson, defending, said that his client had a shocking record but there had been a significant gap in his offending when he was off the drugs and was working.
But when a relationship he was in ran into difficulties, he went back onto the drugs after becoming depressed but he remembered very little “about the spree” he committed that morning.
He had shown genuine remorse and insight, was now drug free and was following various courses while in custody.
The defendant appreciated that what he had done had caused a lot of anguish to others.
Judge Niclas Parry said that his case was awash with aggravating features.
“You came from outside the area and targeted high value vehicles which you stole during two dwelling house burglaries,” he said.
“This was serious criminality over one night.”
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