Shropshire security firm burglar brought to justice
A Telford man who was involved in a burglary at a security firm in Ellesmere has been brought to justice – more than two years on.
Travis Perkin, 21, was one of three men who targeted Safe (UK) Ltd and stole computer equipment worth £4,500 and caused £1,000 damage at the premises.
None of the property taken in the raid at the Ellesmere Business Park in Oswestry Road had been recovered, Shrewsbury Crown Court heard.
Miss Samantha Powis, prosecuting, said that Perkin – along with Jack Moreton and Craig Lynas – was arrested in a van near Oswestry Golf Club in the early hours of September 9, 2013.
Officers found a set of golf clubs in the van along with a crowbar, a torch, screwdrivers, balaclavas and gloves.
Two hours later the raid at Safe (UK) Ltd, which supplies safes and vaults, was discovered by staff arriving for work.
Mr Delroy Henry, for Perkin, said his client did have some mental health issues which had caused him to behave irrationally, but he was now more mature and had secured employment with a relative.
Perkin was given a six-month sentence, suspended for 18 months, placed on supervision and must complete 120 hours of unpaid work.
Perkin, of Southgate, Sutton Hill, had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to charges of burglary and going equipped for theft.
Judge Peter Barrie told Perkin he was being given an opportunity and warned him that it would be easy to fall into a pattern of offending and it was a challenge for him not to let it happen.
Judge Barrie said he had taken into account that the two accomplices in the burglary both had records for similar offences.
At a hearing earlier this year Lynas, 37, of Beaconsfield, Brookside, Telford, was sentenced to eight months in prison for his part in the Safe UK Ltd break-in which was to run concurrently with a 42-month sentence he was serving for supplying Class A drugs. Moreton was jailed for a total of 37 months after admitting two burglaries – including the raid at Safe (UK) Ltd and at Oswestry Golf Club.
Moreton, of Hills Lane Drive in Madeley, Telford, also admitted handling stolen goods and had sold £50,000 worth of car seat equipment at a scrap yard which had been taken in a raid at Cobra Seats at Halesfield, Telford, in October 2012.
