1 week Ago By [email protected] (Mark Naylor)
An aggressive serial criminal turned nasty with police when he was identified from telltale doorbell camera pictures and traces of blood that he left behind during a "spree" of burglaries. Shaun Patterson had a long history of crime and he was "effectively serving a life sentence in instalments" by repeatedly going in and out of prison and ending up "back on the slippery slope" again, Hull Crown Court heard. Patterson, 48, of Glasgow Street, west Hull, admitted four offences of burglary and another of assaulting a police officer as an emergency worker.
Brogan Riley, prosecuting, said that Patterson broke into a shed in Hull Road, Hessle , on February 6. Nothing seemed to have been stolen but blood traces were found to match Patterson. On February 25, a woman was woken by police at about 3.
20am to tell her that her shed had been broken into in Ullswater Drive, Hull. The handle had been ripped off and a security lock was hanging off. The shed had been converted into an outside bar and 10 bottles of alcohol had been taken.
A bag containing cameras was also taken but it was returned after a police officer later saw Patterson, with the bag seen nearby. Patterson also burgled another shed, in Lambwath Road, off Sutton Road, the same night. "The occupier returned home to find the shed door wide open," said Miss Riley.
"A number of tools were on the floor." "The bottom panel of the shed had been broken to secure entry." A bicycle and the woman's son's quad bike had been taken.
Patterson rode off on the bicycle, which was not recovered, but the quad bike was found. The same night, Patterson broke into a shed in Corona Drive, off Sutton Road, Hull, and stole tools, a torch, a nail gun and batteries for tools, together valued at £400. "The bottom of the door had been forced and snapped," said Miss Riley.
Doorbell camera pictures showed Patterson at 4.26am. Police identified Patterson and, when he was arrested on February 27, he said: "You're here for me, aren't you?" Clothes and trainers found at his home matched those shown in pictures.
He became aggressive and argumentative in a cell while he was in custody and he was shouting and calling officers names. He suddenly swung his arm at a sergeant, hitting him on his shin. Patterson had a bad criminal record and he was on licence at the time after being released from a previous prison sentence.
Oliver Shipley, mitigating, said that Patterson's behaviour was unacceptable but he had pleaded guilty. He turned to drink not long after being released from prison and he ended up "back on the slippery slope" by committing a "spree of offences" on the same night. "He is effectively serving a life sentence in instalments," said Mr Shipley.
"In the right environment, he can turn away from this." Patterson, who was in custody on remand, was jailed for one year..
