Victim of burglary left traumatised
A BURGLARY victim was left so traumatised by the intrusion she bleached everything in her home then moved out.
Robyn Gilchrist returned to find the home she shares with her two children had been ransacked.
As well as stealing her children’s Playstation 4 and an Amazon Alexa, Christopher Futers, with the help of lookout James Lawson, also stole her sense of security in the raid in Walker, Newcastle, last November.
Sentencing the pair at Newcastle Crown Court, Recorder Andrew Haslam QC told them: “Miss Gilchrist felt, for understandable reasons, compelled to move house, to move from her home she had made with her two children and, as a result, she fell into debt with relatives who had to help her out with the house move. Because she felt the presence of strangers in it, she bleached the entire contents of it.”
Futers, also known as Cross, who pleaded guilty to the burglary on Birds Nest Road, Walker, along with Lawson, also admitted three other offences - assaulting an emergency worker and two non-dwelling burglaries.
He spat at a police inspector who was trying to offer him help and he carried out two shed burglaries in one night.
Futers, 32, who has 117 previous convictions and Lawson, 40, who has 119 previous convictions, including around ten for burglary, both of Wilfred Street, Byker, were each jailed for 34 months.