Man back behind bars following crime spree
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A 33-year-old burglar, who continued on a crime spree after failing to return to prison, has been jailed again.
Philip Kelly, previously of Radford Street in Worksop, failed to return to HMP Moorland in May after being given two days temporary release on license.
He was arrested in Sheffield town centre on Friday 24 May 2013, after he tried to sell suspected stolen photography equipment.
The equipment was later linked to a burglary in Market Warsop, which happened on the night of Monday 20 May 2013. Also stolen in this burglary was an Audi A6, which has never been recovered.
Kelly appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday (25 June 2013) charged with burglary and theft, theft of a motor vehicle and escaping lawful custody.
He pleaded guilty to all three offences, as well as asking the court to take into consideration three other burglaries whereby cars were stolen from houses in Worksop and Barnby Moor, which he had committed while unlawfully at large.
He was sentenced to five years in jail, to run consecutively to the four-year prison term he received in March 2012, for a burglary in Worksop in 2011, where jewellery was stolen.
Detective Constable Jim Coleman, of Mansfield CID, said: “Kelly’s first burglary in 2011 was on Christmas Day in Worksop. When he escaped from custody he continued to plague his home town — his neighbours — with his intrusions and thefts, leading to substantial financial loss for his victims in the form of high-performance cars, camera equipment and jewellery.
“Let’s hope more than doubling his original jail term will help him reconsider his criminal actions.”