Man jailed for house-breaking

Mar 20 2008

A HAMILTON man was jailed for 15 months last week for breaking into homes and stealing property.

Graeme Carmichael (26), of Townhill Road, also received a six-month jail term for being found in the garden of a house in the town’s Fruin Rise last October.

The charge stated that a ‘reasonable inference’ could be made that he intended to commit a theft there.

The six-month term was to run concurrently with the 15-month sentence.

Carmichael broke into the house in Fruin Rise on October 27 last year and stole cigarettes.

He also broke into a house in Luss Brae, Hamilton, on the same date and stole jewellery.

And, on July 6, 2006, he broke into a house in Rutherglen’s Jedburgh Avenue and stole 170 euros, £120, DVDs, toiletries, jewellery, a camera, a computer and gift tokens.

Carmichael admitted all four offences — which took place while he was on bail on other matters — when he appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court last week.

Carmichael has a long list of previous convictions that includes assault, breach of the peace, thefts by shoplifting and housebreaking, theft of a motor vehicle, housebreaking with intent to steal and breach of probation.