Pair who stole £8,000 in farm house burglary face financial orders
Financial orders have been made against two men who burgled a farm house and stole £8,000 in the process.
Back in December, David Peters, 36, and Lee Himlin, 40, were jailed for two-and-a-half years each for carrying out a pre-planned burglary at the Rhos Fach Farm in Carno, Mid Wales.
Peters admitted burglary and fraud and was said to have made a criminal benefit of £13,460, with Himlin also admitting burglary and making a criminal benefit of £1.
They returned to Mold Crown Court this week due to financial orders being made under the proceeds of crime act.
The court heard Peters had £509 on him when arrested, which was seized.
Judge Niclas Parry, told the pair, who appeared from custody that if they "won the pools" then the authorities would go after them for the remainder of the money.
In December, Peters of Cremar Bethna. in Caernarfon. and Lee Himlin, of New Street, Deniolen, stole £8,000 in cash along with family heirlooms, tools and a bank card from the remote Mid Wales farmhouse.
Ransack
The pair had been working on a windfarm near Carno, and had returned to the area to ransack the property of semi-retired farmer Thomas Pritchard.
During their sentencing last year, the court heard how a blue Skodia Fabia had been spotted nearby by neighbours, and police were quickly able to trace the defendants through that vehicle.
It turned out that Peters had been employed at a local wind farm development which was close to the farm and “spotted an opportunity”.
At the time, prosecutor Anna Price said that the whole community had been affected by the burglary because it had happened in an area which had always been “such a quiet place”.
Judge Parry, when sentencing the pair, stated they had travelled a considerable distance for a "pre-planned and targeted burglary".
He said: "You knew that the property would be unoccupied, you caused damage on entering and you searched every single room."
