Burglar caught by telltale splashes of blood left at scene

TELLTALE splashes of blood left at the scene of a heartless Valentine's Day burglary trapped a drug-addicted grandfather who cynically raided a 25-year-old woman's house and stole treasured and irreplaceable jewellery.

- By MARK NAYLOR

Father-of-seven Karl Gibson had a long history of burglary spanning decades and he was "well familiar with the devastation" that was caused to the victims of his break-in offences, Hull Crown Court heard.

Gibson, 55, of Irenes Avenue, off Chanterlands Avenue, west Hull, admitted an offence of burglary on February 14.

Stephen Welch, prosecuting, said that a woman was working away in Leeds but she had sensors at her home in James Reckitt Avenue, east Hull, and these activated. She asked her father to go round there to check.