A cocaine-addicted burglar smashed his way into a former friend’s home and stole cash after he told him never to return.
Josh Walsh waited until the man had gone out on August 28 before hurling a brick through the back door of his home on Stockingate in South Kirkby, near Wakefield. Leeds Crown Court was told that 28-year-old Walsh had gone to the man’s home earlier to ask for £20, but the man only gave him £10 and warned him to stay away in future. But he later smashed his way in and took a money box containing around £60 in cash.
As a third-strike burglar, Walsh, of Pennine Way, Upton, was told he could face a mandatory three-year jail term unless there were exceptional circumstances. Mitigating, Lucy Brown said: “There’s no justification for what he did. He knew where that money was and knows he should not have done it. He bitterly regrets that he has come back the offending that characterised his younger years. 'His cocaine use had become problematic.
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