Man jailed for stealing phone from school (From Your Local Guardian)

Man jailed for stealing phone from school

10:54am Wednesday 15th February 2012 in Sutton

A 28-year-old was jailed for four months after going into a primary school as children made their way home and stealing a mobile phone from a desk.

Mark Adrian Ross, of Harcourt Road, Wallington, was ordered to pay £400 compensation by Croydon Magistrates on January 28, after admitting burglary.

On January 26, Ross entered Barrow Hedges Primary School, Harbury Road, Carshalton, shortly after 3pm. A teacher had left her classroom to make a cup of tea, leaving her Iphone 4 on a desk. She returned moments later to find her phone had gone.

The school’s CCTV was checked by officers from the Carshalton Central and Carshalton South and Clockhouse safer neighbourhoods teams and Ross was identified entering the classroom.

The CCTV also showed him leaving the classroom with what appeared to be a phone in his hand. Ross was arrested at his home later the same day and charged with burglary the following day.

The mobile phone was not recovered.