Alarm monitoring staff helped to put a prolific burglar behind bars after a crime more than 200 miles away – after he tried to claim he hadn’t broken into a house.
Surrey Police arrested and charged a man identified from forensic evidence at the scene and he was arrested and charged. He tried to convince the court he hadn’t entered the property. Prosecutors were able to prove the offender had gone in; and even which rooms he had entered. Alarm Centre Manager at Securi-Guard, Adrian Baker, supplied a detailed statement to police.
He said after the court case: “When we checked the log of the alarm system we were not only able to prove this chap had actually got in the house, but thanks to the individual sensors, we could also track his movements through the house." Plymouth-based Securi-Guard was monitoring a Visonic Powermax Plus alarm system at a large detached house in Banstead, on behalf of the installers, Sector Alarm UK, based in Chiswick, London. Though police arrived within minutes, the offender had already fled. He got four years at Guildford Crown Court.
