A teenager who was locked up for stealing his grandmother’s engagement ring has admitted committing a string of offences.
Dean Kerr was sentenced to a year behind bars after breaking into his grandparent’s house and looting more than £4,000 worth of goods – including the ring.
Yesterday the 18-year-old returned to the dock and admitted five more charges, including the theft of hundreds of pounds worth of goods and a car.
The court heard that between December 15-16, 2012, Kerr broke into a Chrysler parked on Rubislaw Square, Aberdeen, and took a golf bag containing clubs and balls, a trolley and a rain suit.
Two months later he stole car keys, a bike, a laptop, a Nintendo Wii, a hand bag and a wallet from and address on the city’s Buckie Road.
After getting his hands on the car keys, Kerr and his friend then took off in the vehicle which was sitting outside the house.
Kerr further admitted stealing two laptops and a laptop bag from another address on the same street on May 7, 2013. He also accepted he was in possession of a stolen HP laptop at his house, 44 Waukmill Crescent, Aberdeen, on June 23 that year.
Representing the repeat offender, solicitor Neil McRobert said his client had been through a lot since he committed the crimes.
He said he had since served part of a custodial sentence, which he subsequently appealed, and was now serving a community payback order as an alternative.
Sheriff William Taylor decided to defer sentence on the teenager for background reports to be carried out. He will return to court next month.
In July 2013 Kerr was sentenced to a total 57 weeks detention after breaking into his grandparents’ house on Aberdeen’s Cummings Park Circle, on June 23.
He stole electrical items, cash and jewellery valued at £4,240.
His mum, Erin, slammed her son’s behaviour in an open letter.
She wrote “Your grandma, who has never wanted to move from that house as it is where she raised us, right now can’t stand to be in it. It just reminds her of what you have done – not just to her, but the effect it has had on the whole family.”