A fresh-faced burglar was jailed after he admitted two raids on outhouses and two attempted break-ins – and asked for 20 other offences to be taken into account.

Callum Reynolds-Rolfe, 20, stole bikes from one Oxford shed and a £200 axle grinder from another outhouse.

Together with two others, he was captured on CCTV at the scene of one garage break-in on Oxford Road, Littlemore, on September 3 last year. His DNA was found on a bottle left at the scene.

Jailing Reynolds-Rolfe for 12 months at Oxford Crown Court, Judge Ian Pringle QC likened the dad-of-two’s offending to a ‘splurge’ and said he would be failing in his duty if he did not pass an immediate prison sentence.

The court heard that the defendant already had 35 offences on his record, despite his young age. He’d already been given a two year custodial sentence for burglary and, if he committed another house break-in, faced a three year mandatory minimum jail sentence as a ‘third strike’ burglar.

Overnight between September 2 and September 3, Reynolds-Rolfe stole two bikes from a shed in Egerton Road, Oxford. The bikes were recovered within days.

In the early hours of September 3, he was part of a gang-of-three that tried the doors to a house in Oxford Road, Littlemore. They weren’t able to get into the house but managed to steal a £200 axle grinder from an outhouse. The trio was caught on CCTV and the defendant’s DNA discovered on a bottle found discarded at the scene.

On the same night, a homeowner was asleep at his house in Herschel Crescent, Oxford, when he was woken up by an intruder alarm shortly before 3am. He went downstairs to find that a patio door was slightly ajar, although nothing was taken.

Reynolds-Rolfe also asked for 20 more offences – either burglaries or attempted burglaries – to be taken into consideration. They were committed in July and September 2020 and March 2021. The dates were corrected after Judge Pringle noticed that the defendant was in prison on remand when one offence – said to have taken place on September 3, 2021 – was committed. The date was corrected to September 3 last year.

Mitigating, Richard Davies accepted his client had a poor record, but noted there had been a gap in his offending from 2017. He had ‘issues in relation to his impulsivity' and his judgement was 'affected by other people’. The dad-of-two had struggled with cannabis addiction.

Reynolds-Rolfe, of Warren Crescent, Oxford, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to non-dwelling burglary and attempted burglary.

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