Repeat Hartlepool offender jailed after throwing away court chance with Boots burglary
A burglar has been locked up after throwing away a chance to change by going back to his old ways.
Edward Hanley was spared jail last July after he carried out a string of break-ins of Hartlepool businesses.
Instead, he was given a two-year suspended prison sentence as part of an ISC – Intensive Supervision Court – disposal.
ISCs are designed to help high-risk offenders break the cycle of committing crime and going in and out of prison and Teesside is part of a national trial.
But the 52-year-old failed to take advantage of the opportunity by missing probation appointments and not keeping in touch with his probation workers.
He also reoffended by stealing £96 worth of make-up with an accomplice from Boots in Middleton Grange shopping centre on December 19 last year.
Teesside Crown Court heard they entered the shop by going underneath the half open shutters shortly before the store was due to open.
They were caught by centre security staff and the items were recovered.
Hanley, of St David’s Walk, Hartlepool, pleaded guilty to burglary which put him in breach of last year’s suspended sentence.
He tried to explain it as “a cry for help”, something the judge strongly rejected.
Judge Jonathan Carroll said Hanley had “entirely disengaged" from the wrap around support available to him adding that his mindset was “a million miles away” for being part of the ISC.
He imposed 20 months prison of the previously suspended sentence plus for weeks for the Boots burglary.