Red-handed thief given ten months
Kenneth McLennan, 44, had smashed the front window of a home in Grange Road in Edinburgh and was in the living room when the 87-year-old female owner returned.
McLennan left through the broken window, walked past her and disappeared. She found that 200 in cash and a passbook had been stolen.
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Hide AdDays later, an 18-year old woman living in the same road was the victim of a similar break-in, and called police after locking herself in a room.
At Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday McLennan, of St Albans Road, Edinburgh, was jailed for ten months having previously pled guilty to breaking into the houses in Grange Road on September 7 and 13 this year.
He was on probation and two bail orders at the time. The sheriff said the social work report put McLennan at very high risk of re-offending.