Prolific burglar avoids jail
11:19am Wednesday 19th December 2007
Comments (39)A burglar from Watford who admitted committing more than 70 offences has avoided a jail sentence - for the time being at least.
Terence Ojuederie, 34, has been given a deferred sentence and put onto the Choices and Consequences (C2) programme at St Albans Crown Court.
The scheme aims to steer career criminals, driven to offending by an addiction, away from a life of crime.
Ojuederie was arrested in September and charged with eight offences which took place in Watford, Rickmansworth and Abbots Langley.
He was remanded in custody and asked for a further 69 to be taken into consideration by the courts.
His sentence was deferred for six months while he is on the C2 programme.
If he breaches the conditions of C2, by re-offending or taking illegal drugs, he faces being sentenced fully for all of the offences he admitted.
Detective Superintendent Jane Swinburne, a leading specialist at Hertfordshire Constabulary, said: "the object of the scheme is to turn around the lives of offenders so they are able to halt their pattern of offending and inflicting misery on the people of Hertfordshire."
Candidates must actively participate in the programme attending regular drug tests and interim court hearings.
If C2 is successfully completed a judge can consider giving a non-custodial sentence which would include supervision for up to three years.
Chief Constable Frank Whiteley, chair of the Hertfordshire Criminal Justice Board, said: "Whilst Hertfordshire is one of the safest counties in the country, we cannot be complacent. By targeting offenders who have the biggest criminal impact in hertfordshire we hope to make it even safer."
The Choices and Consequences programme is in conjunction with Hertfordshire Constabulary, Hertfordshire Probation, the Drug Intervention programme, the Regional Offender Management service, Hertfordshire County Council's Crime and Drug Strategy Unit, Herts in Trust, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Regional Offender Learning & Skills Centre, Turning Point and Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust.
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JP, Bushey says...
1:27pm Wed 19 Dec 07
Absolute joke.
Lord Lucan, New Zealand says...
1:31pm Wed 19 Dec 07
street.
Chief Constable Frank Whiteley why make states that you can not achieve ever time an officer makes an arrest, judges fail to sentance according to the crime committed.
Karen, Abbots Langley says...
3:16pm Wed 19 Dec 07
Roy Stockdill, says...
3:47pm Wed 19 Dec 07
No doubt the liberal do-gooding brigade will tell us it's all about rehabilitation. I wonder if they have any figures to show how many offenders are rehabilitated and how many go on committing more crimes? This career burglar will almost certainly con them by doing his best to prove he's a good boy for a while and then resume his career of crime.
I believe not in rehabilitation but in two other "R"s - retribution and revenge, the revenge of society on the worthless scum who infest and prey on it. There is only one solution and deterrent and that is to lock them up, for years if necessary, and withdraw all but the absolutele basics of life, i.e. food and a bed in a bare cell with no comforts whatsoever. No TV, no DVDs, no mobile phones, no visitors, no contact with the outside world. THAT would concentrate their minds on whether it's worth giving up crime far more than any soft rehabilitation programmes. The do-gooders will bleat about the so-called rights of prisoners, but in the eyes of most decent people they abrogated all their rights when they committed their crimes. Lock them up and chuck away the key! And if our prisons are full, then let's build more - preferably on a remote uninhabited Scottish island or possibly even at sea. There is lots of unoccupied water out there in the North Sea and Atlantic where we could erect super-prisons, rather like giant oil rigs, or perhaps the prison service could take over one of those offshore forts where the pirate radio stations used to operate from and turn it into an escape-proof jail. What we need is a British Alcatraz!
davidf, says...
4:41pm Wed 19 Dec 07
John, says...
4:53pm Wed 19 Dec 07
Hang 'em High, by the gallows says...
5:04pm Wed 19 Dec 07
Get rid of that worthless bunch and install characters in the vein of Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood to handle our judiciary system!
Problem solved! :)
Jennifer, Watford says...
8:18pm Wed 19 Dec 07
Victim, watford says...
8:46pm Wed 19 Dec 07
a Crap court system !!!
Jennifer, Watford says...
8:56pm Wed 19 Dec 07
Victim wrote:Ever thought of taking civil action against Mr Ojuederie?
The above named Terence Ojuederie the dirty scum bag once broke into my house taking just about every thing possible along with his brother and both some how got away with it then so Nothing suprises me it\'s all down to soft policeing a Crap court system !!!
Maureen, Hemel says...
9:25pm Wed 19 Dec 07
That'd put a stop to their "lifting"!
mutley, watford says...
9:33pm Wed 19 Dec 07
auntie, Watford says...
10:54pm Wed 19 Dec 07
colin tetts, watford says...
11:16pm Wed 19 Dec 07
The worse the crime the lighter the sentence God bless England's corrupt legal system
Roy Stockdill, says...
9:12am Thu 20 Dec 07
Jennifer wrote:What would be the point? It would cost "Victim" money to hire a lawyer, the criminal would almost certainly get legal aid and even if a judgement was given against him, the chances of "Victim" getting his/her money would be zilch.
Victim wrote: The above named Terence Ojuederie the dirty scum bag once broke into my house taking just about every thing possible along with his brother and both some how got away with it then so Nothing suprises me it\'s all down to soft policeing a Crap court system !!!Ever thought of taking civil action against Mr Ojuederie?
I agree with "Hang 'em High" that we need politicians, judges and magistrates to seriously "get tough" on crime but, alas, I cannot see it happening when the legal system seems far more attuned towards sympathy for the criminal and the deeply flawed concept of "rehabilitation".
Alex, Watford says...
9:33am Thu 20 Dec 07
Here's one for you guys, I was stopped the other day and given a £30 fine for cycling on the path by a Special Police officer, While he was filling in my paperwork, i noticed, and pointed out to him 2 cars who drove past who's drivers had mobile phones glued to their ears whilst driving, and he did Absolutly Bugger all!!!! INFURIATING!!!!
George, Watford says...
10:58am Thu 20 Dec 07
george, harrow says...
2:38pm Thu 20 Dec 07
Why pay for a high court judge/lawyers to give pathetic sentences???
Why not do the schemme in prisons and if after 6 months he proved his changed then let him go and if he commits more crime which is likely then bang him up for twice as long !!
jimjam, watford says...
10:37pm Thu 20 Dec 07
Judge Dread, says...
10:53pm Thu 20 Dec 07
jimjam wrote:I don't give a monkey's whether he regrets his actions or not! I want to see the PUNISHMENT fit the crime! String the little herbert up by the goolies!
you lot are all very quick to judge just because he has been punished lightlier than you lot think dosent mean he dosent regret what he has done you dont no his circumstances the reason he done it or anything so all get a life and stop judging others
I'd also like to see illiterate imbeciles like YOU punished for your inability to compose a sentence or paragraph, not to mention the abysmal grammar and spelling!
40 lashes with the Oxford Dictionary, or better still, Chambers Dictionary (carries more weight) might knock some education into you! LOL
jimjam, watford says...
11:24pm Thu 20 Dec 07
Yas, watford says...
2:28am Fri 21 Dec 07
Judge Dread wrote:But this is a discussion? Not a spelling test? I didn't think people come on here to quote about other peoples spelling!
jimjam wrote: you lot are all very quick to judge just because he has been punished lightlier than you lot think dosent mean he dosent regret what he has done you dont no his circumstances the reason he done it or anything so all get a life and stop judging othersI don't give a monkey's whether he regrets his actions or not! I want to see the PUNISHMENT fit the crime! String the little herbert up by the goolies! I'd also like to see illiterate imbeciles like YOU punished for your inability to compose a sentence or paragraph, not to mention the abysmal grammar and spelling! 40 lashes with the Oxford Dictionary, or better still, Chambers Dictionary (carries more weight) might knock some education into you! LOL
Roy Stockdill, says...
6:05am Fri 21 Dec 07
jimjam wrote:Speaking as one who ALWAYS uses my real name here, could I refer you to the fact that this man admitted more than SEVENTY offences of burglary? I don't think you needed to be in court to realise that he is obviously a career criminal and, as such, needs to be taken out of society for a very long time. I suggest you talk to some victims of
that proves you havent got a danny what goes on in a court room judges know what they are doing and you are the sort who will only say things over the internet behind a nickname you havent got the backbone to say something to someones face im entitled to an opinion thats the point of this page so for you to slate me for my opinion is wrong as you dont have the right!!!!
burglary and get some idea of the traumatic effect it has on their lives, rather than show sympathy for an obviously worthless individual who doesn't deserve it.
Unfortunately, experience and reports in the press prove time and time again that judges DON'T necessarily know what they are doing! The problem is that whereas crimes like burglary affect ordinary people, judges are remote from the common man, tend to be overwhelmingly public school and Oxbridge-educated and rarely, if ever, come into contact with the real world. Added to this is the fact that defence lawyers use every lying, cheating dirty trick in the book to get their clients off and often find it easy to pull the wool over a naive judge's eyes. The whole justice system of this country is geared to sympathy for the criminal filth and weighted against victims.
Judge Dread, says...
9:26am Fri 21 Dec 07
Oh, and your mother christened you with the name "jimjam"? LOL
... and, I still don't give a **** about the offender or any supporters, like yourself, of offenders! - you're as bad, if not worse!
Now, get off your butt and go do some good in the community!
Judge Dread, says...
9:34am Fri 21 Dec 07
Yet another one with poor English grammar skills ... it should be came , not come.
Get to the back of the class with the other illiterate imbecile!
Alex, Watford says...
2:20pm Fri 21 Dec 07
Might i suggest you havent read the article properly, or at all. Go back and read it again PROPERLY and then think how angry and violated you would feel if this man broke into your home and stole your personal belongings. Would you want him to get away with such a seemingly soft punishment. I have never been burgled, myself thank God=, but my Mum works for Victim Support, and she can very well testify to how traumatising being burgled can be, and yet, we see it again and again in the news criminals who commit hideous crimes get away relativly scot-free! And every day honest folk are getting sick and tired of it, and want to see something happen that will visibly and publicly show the criminal class in this country "Break the Law and we'll come down on you like a ton of Bricks!" Politcians! Respond!!!!!
watfordr, watford says...
6:35pm Fri 21 Dec 07
What makes me sick is hypocrites like Alex who break the law themselves and then call themselves decent honest folk
Alex saysBreak the Law and we'll come down on you like a ton of Bricks!" Politcians! Respond!!!! then cycles on the pavement. I'm glad he was caught as it is illegal to cycle on the pavement. Even when caught he even tries to blame other people who were doing other crimes that he considered worse.
The other day a man on a mountain bike passed me on the pavement and his handlebar hit my arm I was shocked and a little bit hurt but most of all I was annoyed because the person was blatantly breaking the law without a care for anyone else.
I can imagine Alex riding along pavement shouting Look out pedestrians I am the King of the pavement and also the savior of the justice system in this country - while moving down cats and old ladies in his wake.
Alex I think that you have constantly ignored this law no doubt you've ridden on the pavement before and no doubt you'll do it again because you only abide by laws you agree with.
I suggest you get off your high horse / bike because you are a law breaker too.
jim jam, watford says...
9:29pm Fri 21 Dec 07
Judge Dread wrote:it does not matter if i use a nickname as im not sl**ging any one off at the end of the day you got nothing better to do and if i had to steal of others to feed my family then so be it ! Not agreeing with the comitted crimes but it says 70 offences including burglary so its not me who needs to read it again is it !!!!
jimjam wrote: \\\\\\\"and you are the sort who will only say things over the internet behind a nickname\\\\\\\" Oh, and your mother christened you with the name \\\\\\\"jimjam\\\\\\\"? LOL ... and, I still don\\\\\\\'t give a **** about the offender or any supporters, like yourself, of offenders! - you\\\\\\\'re as bad, if not worse! Now, get off your butt and go do some good in the community!
Roy Stockdill, says...
10:02pm Fri 21 Dec 07
Speaking as a one-time very regular cyclist, I never once rode on the pavement (I did all my riding on the open road and usually at speed) and I would agree with you that it is very annoying to pedestrians. However, I hardly think it begins to compare with the crimes of a scumbag burglar who breaks into people's homes and steals their belongings.
Judge Dread, gone to lunch says...
10:50pm Fri 21 Dec 07
They seem to see nothing wrong in criminal acts, it's probably their way of life since birth.
Put simply, they have no distinction between right and wrong!
I'm through with them, they'll not be receiving further free English lessons from me! :)
jim jam, watford says...
11:01pm Fri 21 Dec 07
watfordr, watford says...
1:57pm Sat 22 Dec 07
Roy I'm also a keen cyclist (road only - or in designated cycling paths) my top speed down hill is over 30 mph.
Magnus Magnesium, asking questions on honesty says...
2:22pm Sat 22 Dec 07
Have you ever dropped litter?
Have you ever received a copied cd, dvd or cassette?
Have you ever taken home something from your workplace that wasn't rightfully yours, eg pen?
etc, etc, etc
It's so very, very unlikely that anyone can claim to never have broken the law ... I've yet to meet that person.
Maybe it's you that needs to think before you speak? :)
yas, watford says...
11:53pm Sat 22 Dec 07
watfordr, watford says...
10:37am Sun 23 Dec 07
I've never dropped litter - in fact i'm actively against the dropping of litter.
I have very strong views on the copyright laws.
We don't have pens in my workplace.
I can't say for definate that I have never broken any laws only that I have never knowlingly broken any laws.
My conscience is clean and you should stop stealing pens from your workplace thats just wrong!
Magnus Magnesium, still asking questions on honesty says...
11:40am Sun 23 Dec 07
"I can't say for definate that I have never broken any laws only that I have never knowlingly broken any laws."
In fact, what you are saying is, you may well have broken the law any number of times, but you were just too ignorant to have realised it? - I think that says it all, are you a politician by any chance? you certainly sound like one!
Oh, and you're quite correct in saying I should stop stealing pens from the workplace ... the last one had no ink in it, complete waste of time! :)
Alex, Watford says...
9:51am Mon 24 Dec 07
I will have you know i used to cycle on the road anywhere and everywhere until last year when i was knocked off my bike, I consider myself incredibly fortunate to still be alive as a result, it also scares me when i either cycle, or walk, and i see drivers of cars using designated cycle paths as extensions of the carriageway, I've had cars come right up behind me a beep me, and on several occasions take turns without looking to see where i am, and this is despite having very bright lights and wearing a hi-vis jacket. Plus, and this is what REALLY scared me, if a cycle is hit by a car travelling at 30mph, it has a 75/80% crumple zone, meaning on a bike if you get hit by anything other than a stunted midget on a moped, your as good as dead! Bearing that in mind can you blame me for not cycling on the path. And as for my cycling on the path, i am very considerate of pedestrian users on the pavement, allowing people to walk through before i go, i dont barge people out of the way!
Alex, Watford says...
9:58am Mon 24 Dec 07
I'm not comparing Cycling to burglary, there absolutly no comparison, Watfordr and Roy, and anyopone else who's feathers I've ruffled, I will quite gladly go back to Cycling in the road, just as soon as drivers in their cars start to actually driver properly and pay attention to whats going on on the road!
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