A burglar spent more than £700 in three hours on alcohol and cigarettes using stolen bank cards.
Geoffrey Black has been jailed for five years and three months for multiple offences of burglary, fraud and handling stolen goods. The 58-year-old, of no fixed address, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday , March 23, after being caught by detectives from Operation Castle, Merseyside police's ongoing burglary campaign.
A court heard that Black used stolen bank cards and spent £778 in a three hour period to buy alcohol and cigarettes from ten different shops, on November 7 last year. On 27 November, he then broken into a family home on Church Avenue, in Fazakerley, and stole three bikes with a total estimated worth of around £1,600.
