An Inverness teenager with a record for breaking into people’s houses had nine months of detention added to a sentence he is already serving.
Jordan Stewart, 19, whose address was given as Polmont Prison, appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court for sentencing yesterday after earlier admitting breaking into a house a Drumblair Crescent Inverness and stealing a purse on February 16.
He also pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods three days later, taken from a house in Drummond Road, Inverness.
Last month, fiscal depute Alison McKenzie told the court police traced Stewart through a stolen bank card he was using in a Tesco store.
Officers then searched a room in a house in Oldtown Road where he was staying and found a laptop bag.
When he was spoken to and searched after being stopped with a stolen mountain bike, another item, a Bluetooth speaker, was found in his possession.
Stewart had been incarcerated for two years in March for offences of dishonesty and housebreaking.
Defence solicitor Clare Russell said his earliest release date was March 22 next year.
She added her client had had a difficult upbringing, saying: “He seeks attention from a negative peer group. But he now has an insight into the impact his breaking to people’s houses has on them.”
