Serial burglar caught by Ring doorbell camera

CAREER CRIMINAL 'EFFECTIVELY SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE IN INSTALMENTS'

- By MARK NAYLOR

AN aggressive serial criminal turned nasty with police when he was identified from tell-tale doorbell camera pictures and traces of blood that he left behind during a "spree" of burglaries.

Shaun Patterson had a long history of crime and he was “effectively serving a life sentence in instalments” by repeatedly going in and out of prison and ending up “back on the slippery slope” again, Hull Crown Court heard.

Patterson, 48, of Glasgow Street, west Hull, admitted four offences of burglary and another of assaulting a police officer as an emergency worker.

Brogan Riley, prosecuting, said that Patterson broke into a shed in Hull Road, Hessle, on February 6. Nothing seemed to have been stolen but blood traces were found to match Patterson.