A SERIAL burglar was spotted by the owner by remote-linked CCTV after he broke into a house on the Great Orme for the second time in two days.
Alan Cotton, aged 47, of no fixed address, was jailed for four years at Caernarfon crown court, following the latest break-in a fortnight ago.
The court heard he had 15 previous convictions for house burglaries.
He pleaded guilty to three charges relating to a house on the Great Orme, in one burglary having stolen jewellery and watches worth £7,000, stealing a wallet and contents from the staff changing room at the town's Grand Hotel, and theft of a TV from a caravan at Hyde in Cheshire.
Judge Rhys Rowlands was told that after the owner had spotted the burglary on CCTV Cotton had been arrested by police near a cemetery on the Orme, with some stolen items on him, and also pawnbroker tickets for other property.
The judge told Cotton, recently released from prison, that he had an appalling record, the house on the Orme had been targeted, and it had been doubly upsetting for the occupants.
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