Kerry Reynolds jailed for Watford burglary two days after prison release

2:02pm Friday 1st February 2013 in News By Court Reporter

Just two days after being released from prison Kerry Reynolds broke into a house near to where he was living in Watford.

In fact, St Albans crown court was told today, only his arm and leg entered the house before he was forced to flee.

But it was enough to land him in court charged with burglary.

And for Kerry that was a serious situation with his criminal record, especially for burglary offences.

He was given a prison sentence of 250 days for the offence in Rickmansworth Road in Watford on October 15 last year.

Because it was his third burglary offence, he could have received a minimum of three years as a "three strikes" burglar.

David Chrimes prosecuting said it had been the early hours when Kerry tried to break into the multi occupancy house.

He broke a window allowing him to reach in and the court was told he had just got one leg inside when he realised the occupant was present and had to flee.

He was arrested a short while later.

The court was told Kerry, now of London Road, Apsley, had suffered from ADHD for most of his life but, at 29 years of age, was now not so dependant on the medication for the condition.

He had also dabbled with drugs which had led to him having problems with heroin use.

The court was told his long criminal history meant that since the age of 18 he had only enjoyed four years of liberty.

Comments(17)

G_Whiz says...
2:09pm Fri 1 Feb 13

We don't want to know about his whinging excuses. Do we? Time is served to protect us!

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MarsLander says...
2:13pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Clearly freedom does not suit him.

250 days prison, out in 125, that's four months.

Better lock your windows and doors and leave the lights on around the start of June.

I'm not sure why people like him are let out so quickly if all they do is return to crime. He clearly needs a sentence that will either teach him a lesson or keep him out of temptations way.

250 days is not that sentence.

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garston tony says...
2:41pm Fri 1 Feb 13

He should have been given 3 years, he only got 250 days. His list of crimes means he's spent 7 of the past 11 years behind bars. He tried to burgle a house two days after being released from prison.

Anyone else think that a harder sentence may a) have been a better deterrent and b) meant the guy wasnt out and able to return to crime in the first place.

The fact he was caught just two days later shows he has no desire to change his ways and yet he's given a pathetically small sentence. I'll place my bet now that he'll be back in court within a year, and that includes the time spent inside

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harrow1 says...
2:43pm Fri 1 Feb 13

In May 2011 the judge said he would get 3 years minimum of he kept burgling...
http://www.watfordob
server.co.uk/news/90
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_caught_by_neighbour
s/

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G_Whiz says...
2:52pm Fri 1 Feb 13

harrow1 wrote:
In May 2011 the judge said he would get 3 years minimum of he kept burgling...
http://www.watfordob

server.co.uk/news/90

19480.Burglar_gets_1

8_months_after_being

_caught_by_neighbour

s/
Well you know what judges are like already. They are from a different planet!

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n/soul says...
3:19pm Fri 1 Feb 13

This man is scam. always has been and always will be. He never change his ways and not to long ago go a good beating.

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gasguzzler says...
3:54pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Pity there aren't more 'Tony Martins' around to deal with the likes of Reynolds.

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The Rover says...
6:45pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Maybe if prisons were a little less like hotels he would stop reoffending. He will go back inside costing the taxpayer £1000's, and get hot meals provided every day, free use of a gym, access to games consoles etc, etc.

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Nascot says...
8:12pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Leopard - Spots

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Roy Stockdill says...
10:59am Sat 2 Feb 13

This scumbag gets 250 days in jail (a somewhat curious sentence) while yesterday a senior female police officer working in counter-terrorism was jailed for 15 months for allegedly (not proven) attempting to sell information to the News of the World about the phone-hacking investigation.

The officer had a completely unblemished record for 17 years and said she was attempting to be a whistle-blower because some of her colleagues were treating the whole thing as a joke and being distracted from the far more important work of catching terrorists. The judge took the view she was corrupt and gave her 15 months.

As a result of the Leveson Inquiry and decisions like the above, public servants from now on will be terrified of the consequences if they attempt to expose scandal, incompetence and corruption and whistle-blowing will cease.

Welcome to Britain 2013 - a country that is increasingly become a haven for criminals but a neo-fascist state if you attempt to challenge the Establishment!

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stuegs says...
6:28pm Sat 2 Feb 13

ADHD is a load of rubbish. An excuse for poor, lazy parenting.

Just another way of passing the buck.

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Roy Stockdill says...
6:34pm Sat 2 Feb 13

I have no claim to medical knowledge but I agree with stuegs that so many supposed childhood disorders are just fancy names bestowed by trick-cyclists on kids to explain their naughty behaviour - almost certainly down to the parents.

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LSC says...
6:49pm Sat 2 Feb 13

And the education system. I remember the TV programme 'That'll teach them' where modern kids went to a '50s style school. The children were ASTOUNDED when they were told they couldn't talk in class, had to sit in rows at desks rather socially around tables, and address the teacher as 'Sir'.
It wasn't really their fault; they just had no concept or experience of this type of behaviour.

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Su Murray says...
10:36pm Sat 2 Feb 13

ADHD is a clinical condition. Far from being lazy, parents with children who have ADHD face a greater challenge. Most children with ADHD, have siblings who are well behaved and don't get into trouble at all. If it was just down to 'lazy parenting' that wouldn't be the case.

All that said, ADHD is not an excuse for criminal activity.

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Roy Stockdill says...
10:46pm Sat 2 Feb 13

>All that said, ADHD is not an excuse for criminal activity.<

And THAT is the principal point here, surely.

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Su Murray says...
10:55pm Sat 2 Feb 13

Roy Stockdill wrote:
&gt;All that said, ADHD is not an excuse for criminal activity.&lt;

And THAT is the principal point here, surely.
In which case, why make sweeping judgements about the parents of children with ADHD? Especially when, as you say yourself, you have no medical knowledge.

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George1412 says...
8:41am Sun 3 Feb 13

Plain and simple - PUT HIM TO SLEEP.

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