Burglary trio jailed for ‘mean and spiteful’ crime spree
THREE burglars who embarked on an ‘appalling’ crime spree have been locked-up for a total of 10 years.
Daniel Beardsworth, 29, Connor Dewhurst, 22 and David Cairney, 30, carried out burglaries among a spate of other offences. Dewhurst and Beardsworth burgled a home on Hameldon Avenue in Accrington after abusing the woman who lived there in the street.
Dewhurst, of Clayton-leMoors, was later involved in a four-hour stand-off with police after climbing on to a roof in Warner Street in the town centre and hurling dozens of roof tiles at officers, Burnley Crown Court heard.
Beardsworth and Cairney burgled a house on Dill Hall Lane, Church, in November 23 last year, sneaking in through an unlocked door while the householder slept upstairs after a night shift.
The pair took the keys to a Ford Ka escaping with the vehicle before crashing it.
Beardsworth and Cairney ran off but Cairney, formerly of Barnes Street, Clayton-LeMoors, was later apprehended by police after their helicopter located him stuck in a muddy field 200 yards away.
Jailing Beardsworth, Dewhurst and Cairney, Recorder Tom Ryan called their crimes ‘appalling’ and ‘mean’.
CHRIS GEE
THREE men who embarked on an ‘appalling’ crime spree have been sent to jail for a total of 10 years.
A court heard that between them Daniel Beardsworth, 29, Connor Dewhurst, 22 and David Cairney, 30, were behind two burglaries among a series of other offences.
In addition to carrying out a burglary at Hameldon Avenue in Accrington, Dewhurst climbed on a roof in Warner Street in the town centre on the evening of May 6 this year before hurling dozens of roof tiles at police, Burnley Crown Court heard.
He caused a four-hour stand-off and damaged the satellite dish of the nearby Warners Arms before coming down.
Prosecuting, Nicholas Kennedy told the court that Beardsworth and Dewhurst, of Barnes Street, Clayton-leMoors, were involved in the burglary at Hameldon Avenue on November 12 last year.
He said: “A woman householder getting into her car to go to work was subjected to foul and abusive language my males on the street.
“Later that day she was informed by her partner that they had been burgled.”
Beardsworth, of Clough Street, Waterfoot and Dewhurst escaped with a laptop computer, and XBox an iPad, iPhone, jewellery, £800 in cash and a purple suitcase, none of which were recovered.
Beardsworth and Cairney then burgled a house on Dill Hall Lane, Church, on November 23 last year sneaking in through an unlocked door while the householder slept upstairs after a night shift.
The pair took the keys to a Ford Ka, escaping with the vehicle along with a purse and bank cards.
They made three fraudulent transactions with the cards in the next hour before crashing the Ford Ka in Haslingden.
Beardsworth and Cairney ran off but Cairney, formerly of Barnes Street, Clayton-LeMoors, now of Clitheroe, was later apprehended by police after their helicopter located him stuck in a muddy field 200 yards away. He needed to be recused by a mountain rescue team and it later transpired that he had broken his hip in the crash.
Beardsworth also admitted a further offence of criminal damage at his former partner’s house on Slaidburn Avenue, Accrington in July 2017 he smashed furniture and cut up some of her clothes.
Dewhurst also admitted offences of common assault and criminal damage after he smashed a window and spat food in the face of a young female at an address in Accrington on May 4 this year.