Graham Daniel Prydderch, 37, of Benjamin Road, who was spotted by his victim from a house up the road, was jailed for two and a half years
A North Wales burglar, caught red handed by his victim, was jailed for two and a half years.
Defendant Graham Daniel Prydderch, 37, was facing the prospect of a minimum three-year prison sentence.
Mold Crown Court was told he was a “three strikes” burglar who qualified for a statutory term. But a judge agreed to reduce the sentence in view of his early guilty plea.
The court heard how the victim had popped out of his home to see his mum up the road and left the back door unlocked.
But when he was in the bedroom window at his mother’s home he saw Prydderch clambering over a fence into the back of his home.
Nathan Morris ran back home and found Prydderch inside holding his bicycle.
A power washer had also been moved, explained prosecutor David Mainstone.
Prydderch claimed he was on his way to visit Morris but fell to temptation when he realised the back door was unlocked.
Judge Rhys Rowlands told him: “I am told you know him. That makes the offence of burglary all the more mean from where I am sitting.”
He said he also found it difficult to understand if he was visiting the victim that he had climbed over the fence into the back garden.
If the victim had not disturbed him then he would have stolen anything he perceived of value to fund his drug habit.
“It is not the first time that you have burgled people’s homes,” Judge Rowlands told him.
“I fear it will not be the last unless you get a grip on yourself.”
He had previous convictions for three house burglaries.
Prydderch of Benjamin Road in Wrexham, who appeared in court via a live television link from Altcourse Prison, Liverpool, admitted burglary at the house in Brynteg Crescent, Brynteg near Wrexham , on October 28.
Mr Mainstone said Prydderch was a man with a lengthy list of 103 previous convictions, 42 of them theft related.
He had six convictions for burglary, three of them in dwelling houses.
Henry Hills, defending, said that there was no ransacking, no violence, no loss and he described it as an opportunistic burglary.
He was going to see the victim because he knew him. There was no significant planning.
His offending was linked to his drug problem over the years.
The defendant was prescribed methadone, was trying to turn his life around, wanted help and would avail himself of any assistance available to him in custody.
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