Burglar faces ‘inevitable’ jail after city break-ins
A London man due to be sentenced over several burglary and fraud offences in Portsmouth faces ‘inevitable’ jail, a judge said.
Yusuf Janneh was due at Portsmouth Crown Court to be sentenced but never made the hearing due to transport issues from jail. He was due in the dock over multiple house burglaries where expensive valuables have been stolen throughout January and February.
These included a purse being stolen from an address in Newcome Road, Fratton, between 8pm on January 25 and 4.30am the next morning. The bank card inside was used since.
A property was also broken into in Stansted Road, Southsea, between 11pm on January 29 and 6.30am on January 30. Items including a phone, tablet, wallet and a set of car keys were swiped – with a stolen bank card being used. A house in Spenlow Close, Buckland, was also targeted – with a handbag and car being taken. They were used to steal a vehicle outside the address, which the police recovered.
A bank card inside the handbag was used. Theburglary happened between 10.30 pm on February 3 and 4.25am the next morning. Police said they were told about a ‘suspicious vehicle’ in the Nancy Road car park in Fratton just after 4am on February 13. Officers found it a short while later in Museum Road, Old Portsmouth.
The vehicle was registered to an owner in Kensington Road, Copnor. Janneh, 20, of Shackleton Way, Newham, was charged with five counts of dwelling burglary and five counts of fraud by false representation. Judge Timothy Mousley KC said the case had to be adjourned for a pre-sentence report and adjourned the case until June 30.