A man broke a restraining order stopping him from seeing his parents for a ninth time when he burgled their home.
Stuart Cornmell was banned from going to his parents' home in Peter Mahon Way, Bootle, “due to a previous domestic incident”. The order also barred him from contacting them.
But on June 18 last year a neighbour saw Cornmell trying the door handle of the family home, said Paul Blasbery, prosecuting at Liverpool Crown Court. He said: "He was then seen to climb through a first floor bedroom window and after about two minutes he was seen to leave out of the front door.
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“Twenty minutes later he returned to the premises again and entered them via a first floor window and remained about two minutes before leaving.”
When his parents’ granddaughter arrived she found her bedroom window open and £50 was missing. Cornmell’s father, Stuart snr, later realised a gold bracelet worth £400 was missing from a bedside drawer and also a crate of beer was stolen.
Mr Blasbery said: “He did not report it because he did not want to get his son in trouble." His family felt that “he gets worse when he gets out of prison.”
The prosecutor continued: “On July 1 his mum contacted him to arrange to provide him with his Universal Credit money. She told him he would not get it unless they got the bracelet back.
“He denied taking the items but then admitted stealing from the house and said he would give her the slip to get it back from a pawn brokers in the New Strand. They met the next day but he did not have the slip and she refused to hand over the money.
“He became angry and as a result he was reported to the police.”
Mr Blasbery said that 31-year-old Cornmell was located on July 8 and when interviewed he denied the offences and also denied having been in the area. Liverpool Crown Court heard that his 22 previous convictions include eight breaches of the non-molestation order made in March 2017 and the day after the burglary he committed a robbery.
He is currently serving 45 months for that robbery with a release date in August next year. But a judge put that date back by imposing a 12 month prison sentence to run consecutively.
Judge Garrett Byrne told Cornmell, who pleaded guilty to burglary and breaching the restraining order, that his counsel said “you are a changed man. I certainly hope so.” Daniel Bramhall, defending, said: “He accepts there is no excuse for what he has done.”
He said Cornmell had lost his grandfather, to whom he was close, a week earlier and he was in a bad state. Mr Bramhall said: “He was homeless and said at that point he no longer wished to live. It was during that time he was smoking Class A drugs, taking spice and his mental state was in a poor situation.”
Mr Bramhall said the defendant has used his time in custody productively and “is a completely different person and has used the opportunity to get off drugs which have blighted his life for some time.”
