Burglar who broke into home challenged by plucky students

PAIR SEARCHED THIEF AND TOOK BACK WHAT HE HAD STOLEN

- By MARK NAYLOR

A SERIAL burglar who broke into a student house and started packing items into a backpack got more than he bargained for when he was suddenly challenged by two plucky students who promptly searched him and took back his haul of stolen goods.

Prolific criminal Lewis Guymer shamelessly pretended to have gone to the house to collect a debt that was supposedly owed to a drug dealer called Jimbo. He brazenly started picking up items in the house and putting them into a backpack but his money-making burglary mission ended in disaster.

He had dabbled in crack cocaine for the first time and was “at an all-time low” when he targeted and broke into student houses in a desperate search for cash and valuable items to sell, Hull Crown Court heard.

Guymer, 33, of Denaby Court, off Holderness Road, east Hull, but recently in custody on remand, admitted four offences of burglary and another of fraud using a stolen bank card.

Amber Hobson, prosecuting, said Guymer carried out burglaries in the student area of Hull, with the first of them in Cottingham Road on February 6. Two male students heard banging noises after 10.30pm. Guymer walked into the house and claimed that he was there on behalf of someone called Jimbo to collect a drug debt.