A pair of "career burglars" targeted high-performance cars and stole sentimental items belonging to one victim's mother while she was at her funeral.
Serial home invaders Martin Flemming and Grant Ferguson broke into Tyneside homes in a spate of offences, often stealing cars to order. The callous pair casually walked past a sleeping recently-diagnosed cancer victim in one of the break-ins.
And another victim returned home from saying her final goodbye to her mum to find irreplaceable items belonging to her had been stolen. Now Flemming, 34, of no fixed address and Ferguson, 24, of Cruddas Park, Elswick, Newcastle, who both have previous convictions for burglaries, have been jailed for a total of 19 years at Newcastle Crown Court.
