Drug addict jailed after seven-day crime spree
A drug addict who launched a seven-day crime spree across the Black Country during which he stole a car to live in, has been jailed for three years.
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Jagjeet Samra also broke into two homes and sold property stolen from two other burglaries, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard yesterday. The 33-year-old had been thrown out of a hostel where he owed rent, the court was told. Samra was finally arrested in Merridale Street, Merridale while standing alongside the stolen Mini.
Samra, a semi-qualified electrician of no fixed address, admitted, theft, two burglaries, three cases of handling stolen property and one offence of leaving a garage without paying for petrol between May 23 and 30.
