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Burglar who stole £17k from West London home arrested midway through getting his quiff done at barbers

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Vincent
Published date10 April 2024
Publication titleMyLondon (England)
The 30-year-old from Derby, who broke into houses across London and England, was jailed for for four years and six months at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday April 5, after a Cambridgeshire Constabulary investigation. Connors first left his DNA on a window handle after stealing cash and jewellery from a house in Chester on February 2 2021

The clumsy thief struck again at a house in Cambridge on February 26 2021, leaving another sample of DNA on the window handle having failed to steal anything. Nine months later, in November 2021, Connors raided a house in Harecourt Avenue, Sidcup, stealing nothing but yet again leaving DNA, this time on a glove mark on a window frame.

His final target was a home on Shadwell Drive, Northholt, on September 10 2022, when Connors stole cash and jewellery worth more than £17,000. Typically he also left his DNA on a window. During this time he was already wanted on recall to prison for breaching a home detention curfew on a three year sentence relating to a large-scale conspiracy to commit burglaries across Britain.

Cambridge Police say the light-fingered oaf was eventually arrested in the middle of a...

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