A care home raider who twice targeted a building where dementia sufferers and other vulnerable elderly people live has been jailed.
Michael Riley broke into the Byker Hall Care Home, in Byker, Newcastle, in December 2020, getting in through a basement door, trying various door handles in the building and entering various rooms, although none of them where residents were living.
A court heard he stole a DVD player and coffee machine from a conference room and then returned to the building to steal a TV from a wall and a hi-fi system. Six months later, in June 2021, he returned and tried to break in again, just after midnight.
