A serial burglar has been banished from Nottingham city centre at night after his summertime crime wave hit a popular pub, KFC and units at Sneinton Market. Adrian Perry, 53, was behind 10 burglaries, an attempted burglary and a theft, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Wednesday, March 30.
Homeless and addicted to drugs, Perry struck at the Dragon pub, on Long Row, Nottingham, on August 12, 2021. The pub owner saw Perry, wearing a high visibility vest, climb on to his roof and try to open a bedroom window.
The owner was using a different bedroom after the same defendant burgled the pub in December 2018. After Perry was unable to open the bedroom window, he used a brick to smash another window and he grabbed £100 from the till.
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Days later, on August 15, Perry stuck at ZK Mortgages, Hyson Green Business Centre, where he took toilet paper, and he burgled KFC, Long Row, on August 28, and used a fire extinguisher to break into the till but left with nothing. Blood on the till helped police trace him through DNA.
Perry also pinched a handbag from a car. At court, he admitted attempted burglary, three burglaries, the theft of the handbag, and asked for seven more commercial burglaries to be taken into consideration. Those offences were at different units at Sneinton Market, White Rose, Goose Gate, and Macs Mini Market, Radford Road, Hyson Green.
Anthony Cheung, prosecuting, said Perry, who has a bad record for offences of dishonesty, is, "a prolific burglar".
Perry was on a community order at the time, which Judge Steven Coupland revoked and resentenced him to six months. He received this concurrently to a three-year and three month prison sentence for his new crimes.
He made a criminal behaviour order for three years, telling Perry: "I am satisfied, on the material I have read, for a long time you have been involved in behaviour which has caused alarm and distress to people. You are not to enter Nottingham city centre between 10pm and 7am".
Perry will be given a map of where he cannot go in the city at night for the next three years. The judge said the order was designed to, "keep you out of the city centre at night when most of your offences were committed".
Digby Johnson, mitigating, said Perry previously left custody with the expectation of going to Lincoln where he was promised accommodation. But there were problems with the property he was hoping to live in and he was street homeless in Lincoln.
After returning to Nottingham, he ended up homeless but did have contact with the YMCA. He started using drugs again and, "it goes pretty spectacularly wrong", said Mr Johnson. "This was all about trying to get ready cash from the till".
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