dailymail.co.uk — A teenage one-man crimewave who burgled almost 700 homes was finally jailed for five years today after a judge who had previously given him 'one more chance' finally saw sense. Bradley Wernham, 19, was spared a prison sentence in October, despite admitting breaking into hundreds of homes and causing untold misery in his £1m crime spree....
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treytravisAug 4, 2010
Lfao at the pic of the judge
badqatAug 4, 2010
He's pimping in his wig.
piratearggghhhAug 4, 2010
Sometimes he wears it tilted to the side just to be gangsta.
surferessAug 4, 2010
Worst wig ever!
piratearggghhhAug 4, 2010
I disagree, that looks totally natural. Chicks dig it.
quietsykoAug 4, 2010
I'd bury it. It looks like it might still be alive though.
thetruthbringerAug 4, 2010
He looks like a bender.
buttpuddingAug 4, 2010
What's so funny? All brits dress like that.
quietsykoAug 4, 2010
I heard he got it from wigg.com.
digitalunitAug 4, 2010
LOL
hexrrAug 4, 2010
He's hiding his evil, soul-less ginger-ness
random314Aug 5, 2010
Why do British judge wear wigs? lol how do they even keep a serious face in court?
docpowerAug 4, 2010
A 5 year sentence for robbing over 700 homes seems a little light.
jonloganAug 4, 2010
that's just over 2 and a half days per house.
larssonk22Aug 4, 2010
it's light but it sucks for him he isn't a celebrity in the states
whoreableAug 4, 2010
The same could be said of anybody.
beratebirthersAug 5, 2010
Not everyone believes in quantity of punishment.
parasitewaspAug 5, 2010
How about a longer sentence so that more people wouldn't have to come home to their house ransacked.
beratebirthersAug 5, 2010
How about therapy so he becomes a productive member of society?
locastusAug 5, 2010
They tried that already, Berate.
He was even given his own house as part of the rehabilitation effort, but three months later he was caught breaking and entering one of his neighbours houses.
beratebirthersAug 5, 2010
It wasn't intensive enough. A house isn't enough, he needs enough resources that he won't have wants anymore.
gooliaAug 4, 2010
He robs 700 homes and he "gets one more chance." One more chance to rob the 701th home and still more cars, ridiculous!
captininsanityAug 4, 2010
If he stopped at 699 he probably would have gotten away with it...
toxicshokAug 4, 2010
There is nothing wrong with giving a person a second chance. It is the third, fourth, and fifth chances I have trouble with.
Closed AccountAug 5, 2010
Seven hundred and first home
gizram84Aug 4, 2010
700 homes and no one had a Mossberg point down his throat?
gizram84Aug 4, 2010
Edit... Just realized that in England, the government dictates that you can't protect yourself. My bad, maybe the bobbies will come save the day with their big bad nightsticks.
themazzterAug 4, 2010
Hey, if you happen to store your thumbtacks all over the floor by your door, that's your business. >_>
cawpinAug 4, 2010
@gizram84: I did the exact same thing. "WTF? 700 houses? He was really pushing those odds. Oh wait..."
crazedleperAug 4, 2010
True story: My apartment was burglarized while I was at work, generating tax money to pay the people I had to call because my apartment was burglarized while I was at work. I digress... Anyway, the police show up and decline to even enter the crime scene, opting instead to take a report from the comfort of their police cruiser as I stood in the middle of the street.
A few sentences into my apparently uninteresting tale, one of them interrupted me and began to discuss the guys standing on a nearby street corner. He identified one of them as a drug dealer but declined to do anything about that, either. The other of NY's finest, meanwhile, got a great idea but he would need eggs. They were then motivated enough to enter the crime scene--which also contained eggs. They dusted for no prints, examined nothing gave me a report and then took a couple of eggs to the roof to throw at the (alleged) drug dealers.
True story.
atrollAug 5, 2010
Sometimes it is obvious that the Burglar didn't touch or move anything that is a likely surface to yield good latent prints, so the patrol officer who took the report didn't call for an ID man. Or, it is entirely possible that the patrol officer didn't call for an ID man because he wasn't being very diligent. I don't know where you live, or what the police department is like.
The fact that latent fingerprints are recovered at a scene is no guarantee that the case will be solved.
If it is a VERY good quality latent print with lots of good "minutia" (points of identification) it could be entered into an A.F.I.S. (automated fingerprint identification system). And, if the Burglar has been arrested before, you might get him as a "possible" hit. However, unlike television, the print going into AFIS must be of VERY good quality and clarity. The computer gives out a list of several "candidates" with similar fingerprints, and an examiner must look at all of them, and if possile, make an identification.
If the latent prints aren't very good, but are still identifiable, the detective might devleop a suspect. Perhaps someone who was arrested for committing a similar Burglary. They can then compare the latents from your house to the suspect's know fingerprints. And, if it is his fingerprint, they can arrest him.
My friend worked as a line squad detective for years, and investigated thousands of Burglaries. Only about one in five had usable latent fingerprints found at the scene, and of them, only about one in twenty had an arrest made as a result of a latent print identification.
Let me give you a bit of warning. If you have never seen what fingerprint powder looks like, it is a fine powder (usually black or red) that gets all over everything and is next to impossible to clean up. If the officer who came to your house did a fair evaluation, and you call back, you are liable to piss somebody off. Nobody likes to get second guessed. Then they will come and dust for latent fingerprints, for sure. And you will be spending the next two years cleaning up fingerprint powder, because they will dust EVERYTHING.
This is not like TV where the cop runs into the scene with his fingerprint kit and goes through your entire house looking for smudge prints.
There is good chance that the suspects used gloves, and with the amount of prints in a normal house, there may be too many to even get the correct one off anything!
File with your insurance company, give them the police report number and get your stuff replaced.
If you do not have insurance, you just learned why you shouldComment is buried, click here to see the rest.
crazedleperAug 5, 2010
@aTroll wrote:
"This is not like TV where the cop runs into the scene with his fingerprint kit and goes through your entire house looking for smudge prints."
Apparently. If I wanted that kind of treatment, I'd have been wealthy.
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"There is good chance that the suspects used gloves, and with the amount of prints in a normal house, there may be too many to even get the correct one off anything!"
And there's an even better chance that they didn't. Checking would be a good way to find out, no?
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"File with your insurance company, give them the police report number and get your stuff replaced."
Already did--20 years ago.
Closed AccountAug 7, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9DfnagzonI
babywookieAug 4, 2010
It's kind of hard to do when you are not home. Whether you are armed (with a firearm or not), most burglars prefer you to not to be there.
ajajadudeAug 4, 2010
Burglary is different from robbery. A "smart" burglar will only hit a place when it's not being occupied. It avoids confrontation which means it's less likely anyone will get hurt.
faskippyAug 5, 2010
This was in the UK, I think, where violent crime is not an issue, so they don't need guns to protect themselves.
gizram84Aug 5, 2010
You remind me of one of the little sheep in V for Vendetta (before V came), happy with the government keeping them completely oppressed. You just sit home and watch the BTN tell you that the government is doing this for your own good, as your rights are taken away one at a time.
Good little sheep. You said exactly what they would have wanted you to say.
faskippyAug 5, 2010
LOL. Again, I have GOT to start using the /s. Um, what is BTN? Ah, nevermind.
gizram84Aug 5, 2010
@faskippy
Yea, if you were trying to be sarcastic, you failed. It didn't come through. You sounded like someone who honestly believed what they were saying...
The BTN is the fictitious British Television Network in V for Vendetta. While the government continued to rule with an iron fist, snatching up rights, suppressing freedom, instituting curfews, etc, the BTN continued to support the government and basically brainwash people into thinking it was being done for their own good.
number23Aug 4, 2010
No criminal in America would make to 700 break-ins without getting shot.
cyberdactylAug 4, 2010
Indeed
ajajadudeAug 4, 2010
What if they broke into house/apartments when no one was around? Hard to shoot the perp when he or she isn't there.
shutupflandersAug 5, 2010
700 times in a row?
ajajadudeAug 5, 2010
Over the course of 9 years? Not that difficult to find 700 dwellings or businesses that were temporarily unoccupied.
beratebirthersAug 5, 2010
And then get a windfall when he sues the homeowner.
ziffelAug 9, 2010
700 months?? that's 58 YEARS!!!
So yeah, I agree.
7king7kingAug 4, 2010
5 years? he should stay at least 700 months in jail.
InfinityComplexAug 4, 2010
I am going to break into that judge's house, he gives out free apartments and job training if oyu do
fifteenstepperAug 4, 2010
If you assume he started at age 6, that's still about 1 robbery per week.
supercouilleAug 5, 2010
i think the right way to see it is that he did more than one house per night...
ntimblackAug 4, 2010
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/04/article-1300245-0AAF26E9000005DC-556_233x646.jpg
:)
caseycooldAug 9, 2010
Certain things about the Brits make me laugh. Like parking in a verb.
crazedleperAug 4, 2010
WHITE PEOPLE CAN STEAL!!??
fdsa1342Aug 4, 2010
Typically under the cover of bank statements and legal mumbo-jumbo but otherwise yes.
whoreableAug 4, 2010
Yeah apparently really well.
omicronnineAug 5, 2010
Only in europe.
quietsykoAug 4, 2010
I cannot believe that a nice, young, clearly not at all in-bred man him would do a thing like this! Anyone would think he hadn't been raised properly or taught right from wrong!Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
diggerlaterAug 4, 2010
He's lucky he didn't try to break into my place. Must suck to live in the UK and be defenseless in your own home.
ymegAug 4, 2010
You don't get to 700 without scouting out the places you break into, tuff guy.
cockslapAug 4, 2010
in england, what do you have to worry about. Maybe someone coming at you with a kitchen knife?
designerutahAug 4, 2010
How exactly does one go about scouting out the places you break into without arousing suspicion? And does this scouting include checking the interior of the home for weapons? Or is it just limited to trying to ascertain that no one is home? Either way, unless you are sure no one is home, or there are no weapons at the residence, just the idea that many homes would have a gun, and the owner able and willing to use it should help keep most people out the breaking and entering business.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
ajajadudeAug 4, 2010
"Scouting out places" doesn't include walking up to the front of the house, peering into windows and jiggling the door handle before leaving. Ever see that Discovery show It Takes a Thief?
kwanijmlAug 5, 2010
You're not able to scout out 700 suitable targets if the majority of them are armed, Mr. . . . .NotToughGuy.
caseycooldAug 9, 2010
Also, I didn't read of anyone getting hurt or having guns pointed at them.
I'd personally just knock this s**t out of him.
But you live. You live to fight another day.
thetruthbringerAug 4, 2010
Props on his productivity and persistence in the pursuit of purloined property.
wilf_brimAug 4, 2010
I'm curious what he did with all the stuff. Fenced it and spent on drugs I'd guess.
larssonk22Aug 4, 2010
ebay, just like my car parts
bastads
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
f**k's sake, please ignore the Daily Fail.
I'm guessing he was put in front of court once, and asked for his previous offences to be taken into consideration (it's a British legal thing). As he's 19 and it was technically his first offence, the judge probably thought putting him into jail (probably making him even worse) was not the best idea.
Of course the Daily Fail headline makes it seem like he's been up in front of a judge 700 times on 700 separate occasions.....ah yes, I'm almost right, here it is:
'17 burglaries and thefts and asked for 645 others to be taken into account when he first appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court in October 2009.'
Just beware that this paper makes its living from providing upper working and lower middle class, enraged populist right wingers with something to get angry about, and has a team of journalists dedicated to trawling out the most extreme examples of things like this.
toxicshokAug 4, 2010
700 houses? I think it is a little bit late to steer him away from a life of crime.
Closed AccountAug 5, 2010
He's 19, it was worth a shot, some kids can turn around at that age. Just because he's prolific doesn't mean he's 100% beyond help (although he probably is.)
faskippyAug 5, 2010
I never saw where they tried to make it seem like he'd been before the court 700 times.
Closed AccountAug 5, 2010
FINALLY locked up (as if there'd been loads of previous attempts, whereas there had been one or two by the sounds of it.)
faskippyAug 5, 2010
Yeah. He's one lucky guy, I tell ya, that no one ever got hurt.
locastusAug 5, 2010
Yes, it's the Daily Fail, but that doesnt mean that they made this story up, does it?
Here you go: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/04/ukcrime-criminal-justice
It's from the Guardian, so lefties like you can read the story with out getting all pissy about the source.
cyberdactylAug 4, 2010
I'm afraid the UK is going down fast in its pursuit of PC and far left attitudes.
Crime is running rampant.
mrllamaAug 4, 2010
The number of crimes committed in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level since records began in 1981, official figures have shown.
The latest British Crime Survey (BCS) said there had been a "notable" drop in theft, burglary and fraud.
- BBC News (15th July 2010)
zomboAug 5, 2010
The BCS have proven to be complete garbage, they don't for example include juvenile crime or crime reported by the transport police.
caseycooldAug 9, 2010
We have more murders in NYC then all of Briton.
http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/16/crime-figures-recession-impact
larssonk22Aug 4, 2010
Dailymail probably made a book deal with him, so when he comes out after 3years he'll have a couple of hundred grand in the bank.
razorguyAug 4, 2010
And people say today's youth are slack-asses...
buttpuddingAug 4, 2010
If the brits had rights to own guns, i'm sure he would be less likely to invade homes in the off chance he could run into someone who was armed.
disasterfaceAug 4, 2010
yes, because no one ever robs houses in the US
its true that the UK has a higher robbery rate, but it's hardly a huge difference. (1.3 vs 1.5 out of every 1000 people.) Also, you are FAR less likely to be murdered there. But if you really think that guns are the reason for less robberies here, then how do you explain all the other countries that have much stricter gun laws and a much lower robbery rate? There are only 10 countries including the UK with higher robbery rates than the US, so clearly guns aren't doing all that much deterring.
sexxxyAug 4, 2010
Anyone else scroll down and see a picture of the judge then thought it was an Onion article?
differentangleAug 4, 2010
Wow, the judge is a complete moron. Let of drug users or first time offenders, not someone who has been convicted of dozens of offenses, and admits to hundreds.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
confuciussayAug 4, 2010
He's finally found home..
nubixxAug 4, 2010
he looks like he waxes his eyebrows.
kwanijmlAug 4, 2010
Who cares what punishment the court inflicts on him. . . . .nobody seems to care whether or not all the victims were made whole, repaid, and had their property returned to them. Why do we now have to pay for this guy to sit around in prison for 5 years, on our dime? So that we can feel good that we punished him? How about instead a probationary work program where he must pay all damages and debts and make full restitution. . . . in the process, he'll probably learn a trade or a skill that will lessen the probability of him going back to theft when he is released.
hereticoftruthAug 4, 2010
Aww! Give him another break! We can trust him! Look at how innocent he looks!
/s
Or, make sure the spoiled brat pays back every penny like he SHOULD. Then he will learn at least one half the value of doing the right thing and maybe find the other half a bargain.
hexrrAug 4, 2010
They should make him work as a sexual servant in jail to earn money to repay the people who he stole from.
heavyj1970Aug 4, 2010
If for some crazy aaed reason I was somehow forced to rob ! house, I would be scared s**tless of going to prison for life, the dude robs over 700 and only gets a nickel! That's wack
jamponymesengerAug 4, 2010
"burgled"
hero0ftimeAug 4, 2010
And yet, this guy is still on the loose. Will we ever see justice?
http://tinyurl.com/25o6qrg
jabbrwockeyAug 4, 2010
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/04/article-1300245-0AAF26E9000005DC-556_233x646.jpg
daltonkuepkerAug 4, 2010
Did he steal any hamburgers? If he did he'd be called the...
HAMBURGLAR
I have a gift.
joejitsuAug 4, 2010
The UK is too easy on criminals.
sutleyAug 5, 2010
"But engineer Tim Marsland, 39, who had his £2,500 Kawasaki ZX6R bike worth £2,500..."
Redundant statement is redundant.
shutupflandersAug 5, 2010
In the US, he'd have been shot to death a long time ago.
Closed AccountAug 5, 2010
if this were the US this idiot would have a gun, and that certainly isn't a good thing
wengyangAug 5, 2010
did he break a world record?
dj4wvuAug 5, 2010
He should have his own show on the discovery channel!
inactiveuserAug 5, 2010
How long would he get if he had 700 plants?
notyavgkatAug 5, 2010
they should make hime get f**ked in the ass 700 times
auto98Aug 5, 2010
I wonder how much his crime wave really cost, rather than how much was put on insurance claims
default08Aug 5, 2010
He should be taken out back and shot.
flyingsquidwolfAug 9, 2010
Daily Mail, Buried.