'Heart signs' couple end up going to prison

A COUPLE made heart signs to each other with their hands when they appeared in court via videolinks from their respective prisons.

- JASON EVANS

Bobbie Kittle and Anthony Williams were being sentenced for creeping into a house in the middle of the night and stealing a car which was then involved in a police pursuit during which tyre busting stingers were used and a Taser stun gun was drawn.

Swansea Crown Court heard that between them Kittle and Williams have more than 270 previous offences on their records. Sending the pair down, the judge said the mischief of burglary was not just in the monetary loss of items stolen but in the loss of victims' feelings of security and safety in their own homes.

Emily Bennett, prosecuting, told the court that on the morning of June 9 the owner of a Citroen DS4 living in the Sandfields area of Swansea woke to find the keys to his car were missing from the living room table where he had left them the night before, and that his vehicle was not parked where he had left it.

The burglary was reported to police, and at 11.30am that day a helicopter from the National Police Air Service spotted the stolen Citroen in Rhymney.