A burglar caused more than £27,000-worth of damage when he broke into homes and stripped them of pipework and heating systems.
Drug addict, Ethan Watson, smashed windows or glass panels to get into the unoccupied properties, which were empty and undergoing renovation works, then made-off with sinks, taps, boilers, radiators and copper pipes. A court heard that the 21-year-old caused substantial damage to the houses, including by flooding them with water that gushed from the disrupted heating systems.
Watson, of Brick Garth, Easington Lane, Houghton-le-Spring, in Sunderland, was tracked down after leaving blood at the scene of two of his crimes and arrested. He has now been locked up for 18 months after he admitted six counts of non-dwelling burglary, one of attempted burglary and one of criminal damage.
