7:10am Tuesday 18th November 2008
By Eleanor Harding
A man who burgled a rowing club on the Putney Embankment has been sentenced to four months in prison.
Anthony Caskey, 34, stole a television and £300 when he broke in through the balcony window in June last year.
Officers identified him through DNA because he cut himself on the way in, Crown Prosecution lawyer Alexandra Boshell told South Western Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
He turned himself in to police and admitted the offence, as well as three other burglaries, one of which police did not know about.
Since the charges were brought, his girlfriend turned him out of her house in Essex, where they were living with their young baby.
His lawyer John Hewlett said: “The offences were conducted to fund a drug habit of heroin, which he has had for a number of years.”
He added that all the burglaries had taken place over just a few weeks and that he was now receiving drugs treatment.
Caskey’s guilty plea was taken into consideration when he was sentenced by the chair Mr Taylor.
He was sentenced to 14 extra days in custody for failing to surrendered to court on November 6 but this will be served at the same time as the four months for burglary.
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