'Spiderman' burglar terrorises woman

Eventually the woman persuaded the teenager to leave – and he smashed his way into a downstairs flat instead, a youth court sitting in Newbury heard on Thursday, February 5.
Helen Waite, prosecuting, said the aggrieved, identified only as Ms Estrea, investigated a night time noise at her open upstairs window in London Road, Newbury, and was astonished to see a male hanging from the sill above a sheer drop;
Ms Estrea told police: “He swung his boot in and got in. I was scared – I didn’t know what he was going to do. I told him he needed to leave

“He was wandering round the flat, then went to the kitchen and got a can of Coke from the fridge. I was in shock.
“He eventually went out the front door and I could hear him trying to get into the downstairs property. I heard a window smashing.”
Ms Estrea said in a victim impact statement the incident had left her shaken and scared to be alone at home.
The 17-year-old from Newbury, who can not be identified for legal reasons, was arrested after breaking into Emma Renton’s downstairs flat and told police he had been drinking and had taken the mind-bending stimulant, Meow – the Class B controlled designer drug, mephedrone.
The youth, who has previous convictions, admitted burglary and causing criminal damage, both on November 28 last year.
He further admitted assaulting a stranger named Daniel Fox by beating him as he was on his way to work in Newbury’s Parkway shopping centre on October 24 last year, and breaching a conditional discharge imposed for breaking an exclusion order barring him from Newbury town centre.
Mike Davis, defending, said his client had now disassociated himself from others who had been a bad influence on him.
Of the burglary, he said: “It’s a sheer wall. It’s difficult to envisage how he got up there - it was quite a feat.
“He had taken Meow and was wandering round talking to himself. He was, as we say, out of it.
“He thought he was in the flat of someone he knew.
“In the downstairs flat there’s no evidence he took anything –I don't think anyone can be sure what was going through his mind.”
After reading pre-sentence reports, magistrates made the youth subject to a 12-month rehabilitation order with supervision requirement.
They ordered him to pay £60 compensation to Mr Fox and £60 compensation to Ms Estrea. No order for costs or victim surcharge was made due to the jobless 17-year-old's lack of means.