Teenage burglars admit 59 offences

TWO teenage burglars have been sent to jail for a total of more than five years after racking up over 50 raids between them.

Keiran Flanagan (19) and Andrew Jenkins (18), both of Walters Drive, Fitton Hill, pleaded guilty to 59 separate offences at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester.

Flanagan was sentenced to three and a half years in a young offenders’ institution and Jenkins was jailed for 20 months. The serial burglars, despite their age, have already clocked up numerous convictions for burglary.

Jenkins was imprisoned for nine weeks earlier year and Flanagan has been subject to an ASBO since 2005.

Miss Raquel Simpson, defending Flanagan, said: “He pleaded guilty to all the matters at the first possible opportunity.

“The defendant helped police and handed back the item of property that he had stolen.”

For Jenkins, Mr Joseph Hart said: “He was egged along to carry out the burglary. He had a difficult upbringing being passed between care homes and foster care, being abused and found no sense of belonging.

“He found comfort with the people who egged him on in the first place and without a role model, he drifted into a life of offending.”