A career criminal was back behind bars last night after he broke into a home in the middle of the night and made off with thousands of pounds worth of goods.
Shane Hosie was jailed for 18 months yesterday after he appeared from custody at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and admitted targeting the house on Wallacebrae Road, Danestone, on October 7 last year.
The court heard the 42-year-old had managed to sneak in through an unlocked window in the utility room.
Once inside, the repeat offender gathered handbags, wallets, jewellery and keys before letting himself out of the back door.
While Hosie was carrying out the raid, the married occupants of the home were asleep in their beds upstairs.
Fiscal depute Elaine Ward said it was not until the next morning – when the couple were looking for the wife’s handbag – that they discovered someone had been in their home.
When police arrived they found fingerprints on the window where Hosie had clambered inside.
When he was traced by officers the father-of three admitted carrying out the crime.
In May last year Hosie, of 151 Crown Street, Aberdeen, was locked up for a year after he admitted breaking into a house on the city’s Tollohill Place.
Sentencing him yesterday, Sheriff William Summers said: “You have pled guilty to theft by housebreaking. What is particularly troubling is that you broke into someone’s house in the middle of the night while it was occupied and you stole items worth more than £2,000.
“What is even more troubling is that you have directly analogous previous convictions.
“There is no alternative than to impose a custodial sentence.”