"Missing" burglar avoids jail (From Southend Standard)
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"Missing" burglar avoids jail
11:34am Wednesday 31st October 2012 in Echo News By Jon Austin
A WOMAN who burgled two homes during a major missing person search for her after she was seen being dragged into a car has avoided prison.
Drug addict Kariss Clarke, 23, from New Waverley Road, Noak Bridge, admitted breaking into two homes in Ilford with boyfriend Jimmy McCann in April.
The crimes took place during a high-profile police search reported in the Echo which was sparked after a witness saw her assaulted and dragged into a black Jaguar in Seaview Avenue, Vange, at 9.30pm on Friday, April 13.
Clarke appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court where she was sentenced to a two-year supervision order.
This includes a six-month drug rehabilitation referal order and a separate education programme.
In September McCann, 30, from Hovefields Avenue, Wickford, was jailed for 28 months after he admitted his part in the burglaries soon after Clarke’s disappearance.
The burglaries happened while Essex Police’s serious crime squad was trying to trace the pair amid fears Kariss had been kidnapped.
She was reported after a resident said he saw her being assaulted by a man and bundled into the car.
The car, which turned out to have been stolen during a burglary in Ongar days earlier, was found dumped in Vange two days later.
It sparked a two-week missing person inquiry, involving a search of Canvey Marshes.
However, it was scaled down after Clarke contacted relatives by telephone.
Later, the pair were arrested in Forest Gate, near Ilford, after the burglaries.
They admitted entering a property in Cranley Drive, Ilford, with the intention of burgling it and pleaded guilty to a burglary in Springfield Drive, Ilford, the following day, where cash was taken.
Clarke was interviewed about the theft of the Jaguar, but released without charge. McCann has been bailed in connection with the offence.
Comments(15)
Russ13
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12:35pm Wed 31 Oct 12
No wonder this country is in the state it's in!
perini
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12:36pm Wed 31 Oct 12
EthanEdwards
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12:58pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Much stiffer penalties for that one and given the circumstances there is very little defence possible.
We have the laws in place it's just the idiotic CPS and judiciary who refuse to apply them.
These scumbags need locking away for years.
nicknows
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1:10pm Wed 31 Oct 12
It would have been cheaper to have locked this low life up!
At least they would know where she was. Wonder how long before she re-offends?
EthanEdwards
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1:51pm Wed 31 Oct 12
McCann, 30, from Hovefields Avenue, Wickford,
Unquote
Now if only I could recall what social grouping lives there in non brick dwellings.
They are one which claims to be a particular grouping of people oh Mincy knows the name it just escapes me.
Can anyone guess?
Nebs
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2:00pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Just to avoid confusion, that wasn't from this case. It was from 2 years ago when she got sent to prison for 4 months.
http://www.echo-news
.co.uk/news/local_ne
ws/basildon/8274780.
Man_and_girlfriend_a
re_jailed_for_attack
_on_pregnant_teen/
EthanEdwards
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2:03pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Jimmy has history for damaging a car wash at a garage. Fined £600.
Now what were you saying about a positive contribution to society? s
EthanEdwards
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2:08pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Yes that rings a bell.
Lovely people..wish they were my neighbours...NOT!
alimac69
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4:12pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Son of Stropmag
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5:52pm Wed 31 Oct 12
EthanEdwards wrote:I think I know but cannot tell as the P word is no longer acceptable following many months of harassment of the Echo staff by the clown formerly known as Mincer.
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McCann, 30, from Hovefields Avenue, Wickford,
Unquote
Now if only I could recall what social grouping lives there in non brick dwellings.
They are one which claims to be a particular grouping of people oh Mincy knows the name it just escapes me.
Can anyone guess?
Druggie Scumbag
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5:59pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Eric Whim wrote:Then baton down the scum. That this low-life is free today beggars belief. What exactly do you have to do to get banged up these days- other that to protest against the government?
batten down the hatches
Basildon.lad.21
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9:13pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Druggie Scumbag wrote:I have no idea, the only thing you actually get locked up for now adays is murder/manslaughter it seems. Even then there out usually within 10-20 years, for some people there out of prison for murder before there 40. Quite scary.
Eric Whim wrote:Then baton down the scum. That this low-life is free today beggars belief. What exactly do you have to do to get banged up these days- other that to protest against the government?
batten down the hatches
In America car jacking/pursuits which is assualt with a deadly weapon if you hit someone, carries between 10-20 years. in England usually a community order or a small prison sentence. Its so stupid the justice system in England that you could actually laugh at it.
Steve H
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10:54pm Wed 31 Oct 12
Nebs
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1:48pm Thu 1 Nov 12
Basildon.lad.21 wrote:This makes interesting reading
Druggie Scumbag wrote:I have no idea, the only thing you actually get locked up for now adays is murder/manslaughter it seems. Even then there out usually within 10-20 years, for some people there out of prison for murder before there 40. Quite scary.
Eric Whim wrote:Then baton down the scum. That this low-life is free today beggars belief. What exactly do you have to do to get banged up these days- other that to protest against the government?
batten down the hatches
In America car jacking/pursuits which is assualt with a deadly weapon if you hit someone, carries between 10-20 years. in England usually a community order or a small prison sentence. Its so stupid the justice system in England that you could actually laugh at it.
http://sentencingcou
ncil.judiciary.gov.u
k/docs/Burglary_offe
nces_guideline_-_pro
fessional_consultati
on.pdf
Eric Whim says...
11:41am Wed 31 Oct 12