Convict pleads guilty to summer burglary

A CONVICT was yesterday handed an extra 18-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to break in to a house in Nicosia in August 2005.

The man is already serving a two-year sentence for burglary and assaulting a police officer, for which he was convicted in 2006.

The 33-year-old was yesterday jailed again after admitting to breaking into the house of a woman and stealing her jewellery, estimated at £5,800, as well as the cash sum of £1,280.
The defendant had managed to break into her house by breaking down the back aluminum door.

He was finally caught after being fingered by DNA evidence left at the scene of the crime.

After the mitigation hearing, in which the court heard that the woman had withdrawn her complaint against him, Judge Olga Loizou said the court had no choice but to sentence the defendant once again.

However, by adding that his sentence will begin with immediate effect, the two sentences will run concurrently and the 33-year-old will not spend more time in prison.

According to the court decision, the 33-year-old has been convicted twice before in the past. In 2000, he was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by a Larnaca Court for theft related offences and was again in prison around a year later on drug related offences, assaulting a police officer and theft.

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