A ‘THREE-STRIKE’ burglar who stole a man’s laptop while he lay unconscious in a corridor has been jailed.
Bradford Crown Court heard that Neil Ellis, 51, was at his flat in Thomas Duggan House, Shipley, on the evening of November 13 when he was alerted to the fact that his 46-year-old neighbour, Mark Wray, had passed out after drinking vodka and coke.
Instead of going to his aid, Ellis took the man’s key and went into his flat, stealing a laptop bag with the computer inside.
Ellis was detained and admitted the offence to police.
He pleaded guilty to burglary in front of magistrates last week and had been remanded in custody ahead of his sentencing via video-link yesterday.
Jailing him for 876 days, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, said: “We could go through all the words – despicable, mean – but you know it was wrong.”
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