A crack addict burgled his cousin’s flat to buy drugs then tried to bribe him with £500 to drop the charges.
Michael Porter, 30, of Masseyfield Road, Brookvale, Runcorn, was described as a "walking advert for the Just Say No" anti-drugs campaign by his defence counsel as he faced justice at Chester Crown Court on Tuesday for crimes committed last summer. Nardeen Nemat, prosecuting, said Porter let himself inside the flat on Camelot Way with a key that his victim Bradley Gibson had left for his mother after he’d headed to Leeds Festival on August 26 last year.
Once inside, Porter “ransacked” the premises and made off with goods worth around £3,645 including designer clothes, a fridge freezer, a PlayStation, three televisions, a gaming chair, and ear pods. Ms Nemat said Mr Gibson first learned something was amiss when he received a text at 1.45am on August 29 from a neighbour who asked: “Are you in? I can hear loads of banging, it sounds dodgy.”
