Jail for crook who left blood at scene of crime
ABUNGLING Southport crook was caught by police after leaving his blood and fingerprints at numerous crime scenes. Kallum Rimmer, 21, who burgled to fund his cocaine habit, climbed through an open window at a home on Poulton Road in Southport.
He then stole the homeowners iPad, watch and laptop worth £1,250.
Rimmer then went on to target a cabin at Hodges Farm in Foul Lane, Southport , where he took nearly £2,700 of items.
A television and laptops were among some of the items stolen from the farm.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Rimmer disconnected CCTV cameras and security lighting at the farm and stole a CCTV hard drive to avoid being identified.
But the thief cut himself while smashing a padlock, leaving blood and his DNA at the scene, and he also left fingerprints during the earlier burglary.
Simon Duncan, prosecuting, said Rimmer struck in Poulton Road on September 3 and the cabin on October 17 this year.
Rimmer, of Cricket Path, Birkdale, Southport, refused to be interviewed when he was arrested by police.
He later admitted the two burglaries, which were carried out while he was on licence, following a previous spell behind bars.
Rimmer, who has been recalled to prison, first received a supervision order for a series of commercial burglaries in 2009.
He was handed an eight-month detention and train- ing order in 2010 after burgling a home and a further 18 months in 2011 for robbery.
Rimmer was locked up for three years and six months in late 2013 for another home burglary and 12 thefts from dwellings.
These convictions meant he was subject to a minimum sentence of three years, minus his credit for his guilty pleas.
Rory McCormack, defending, said Rimmer was still a young man and could yet turn his life around.
He said: “The last few years he has developed a serious cocaine habit and put simply he has committed these offences in order to fund that habit.”
Mr McCormack told the court that Rimmer had now indicated where police could find the laptop.
Judge Andrew Menary, QC, said the computer and the iPad were likely to contain valued information or photographs and if they were returned, that would be to his credit.
He said: “You have an appalling record for stealing property from other people’s homes.
“You need to wake up to the realisation that these are serious offences causing very real upset to the householders concerned.
“Not simply because their property has been stolen, but because of the sense of insecurity and threat the householders feel because you have entered their premises.”
Judge Menary said Rimmer took items including a concrete tester – “of no use to you at all” – during the farm raid.
He said this was a separate offence, meriting a consecutive prison sentence, and handed Rimmer three years and three weeks behind bars.