夜盗,押し込み強盗 amazes 裁判官 with 法廷の memory as he takes police on 罪,犯罪 小旅行する of 305 break-ins

Last updated at 01:34 19 March 2008


When Stuart McCormick was 刑務所,拘置所d for a dozen 窃盗s police thought they had seen the 支援する of a 比較して prolific 夜盗,押し込み強盗.

Just how prolific became (疑いを)晴らす four months later when he 召喚するd officers to his 刑務所,拘置所 独房 and 任意に 自白するd to 305 その上の 罪,犯罪s.

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McCormick/Judge Picton

A trip 負かす/撃墜する memory 苦痛: 裁判官 Picton said Stuart McCormick had a 'powerful intellect' for remembering his 305 罪,犯罪s

説 he 手配中の,お尋ね者 to make a fresh start and give his 犠牲者s "終結", McCormick gave amazingly 正確な 詳細(に述べる)s of all the other break-ins he had committed over the past 10年間.

Police spent 15 days in a car with him visiting every house, office and factory he (人命などを)奪う,主張するd to have stolen from.

After months of その上の 調査 they discovered that his memory was flawless - each 場所/位置 had indeed been 的d.

Yesterday, McCormick's マラソン 自白 was rewarded with a 刑務所,拘置所 宣告,判決 that will 追加する only a few months to his time behind 妨げる/法廷,弁護士業s.

"This is a genuinely unusual 事例/患者,' 裁判官 ツバメ Picton told him.

"Having got a 宣告,判決 of three years and nine months from me last July you have chosen to try to (疑いを)晴らす the 調書をとる/予約するs in a way which I have never seen before.

"For 305 押し込み強盗s with your 記録,記録的な/記録する I can see a five to six-year 宣告,判決 存在 課すd easily.

"But I think it is 権利 to 反映する the fact that while the offences show a hideous level of criminality in which you have been engaged for many years 非,不,無 of these 事柄s could have been identified had you not chosen to tell the police about them.

"I am sure they were written off the police 調書をとる/予約するs years ago.

"I am sure t hat people who I hope now have been told their 押し込み強盗s have been solved get some 慰安 from this."

McCormick, 29, pleaded 有罪の yesterday to two of the 305 offences and asked for the 残り/休憩(する) to be considered in 宣告,判決ing.

He was given a 刑務所,拘置所 称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 of three years and three months to run 同時に with the 残りの人,物 of the 宣告,判決 課すd last July for 12 押し込み強盗s.

Jon Holmes, for McCormick, told Gloucester 栄冠を与える 法廷,裁判所 that his (弁護士の)依頼人 had a 麻薬 problem but was learning new 技術s in 刑務所,拘置所 and "活発に 捜し出すing to make a fresh start to his life".

He 追加するd: "率直に, I am amazed that someone in his 状況/情勢 can remember 支援する ten years."

裁判官 Picton said: "He has 明確に got a powerful intellect if he can remember so long ago."

The 裁判官 also commended Des Powell, of Gloucestershire Constabulary, for 文書ing all the 罪,犯罪s McCormick 自白するd to in 刑務所,拘置所 in November.

After the 審理,公聴会, the constable said: "It was him [McCormick] who approached us at the 手始め and said he wished to change his life and he has been the 運動ing 軍隊 behind this.

"There has been 絶対 no advantage to him in admitting these offences because a lot of them were very old and there was a 無 chance of them 存在 solved.

"Stuart has worked with us throughout a 非常に長い 調査 to (疑いを)晴らす all these 事柄s up.

"He has told us he wants to do it for the 利益 of the 犠牲者s of his 罪,犯罪, so that they will know the person responsible has 認める them and been 宣告,判決d."

Mr Powell said he was surprised by McCormick's ability to 解任する 詳細(に述べる)s of his 延長するd 罪,犯罪 spree in and around his home city of Gloucester.

"There were dozens of house 押し込み強盗s 同様に as 押し込み強盗s of sheds, garages and 商業の 前提s," he 追加するd.

"We checked our 記録,記録的な/記録するs for every 選び出す/独身 one of them to 立証する that what he told us was 訂正する.

"To do what he has done has taken a 抱擁する leap of 約束.

"It was possible he could have ended up with years 存在 追加するd to his 宣告,判決. I believe his 動機づけ has been 本物の.

"A lot of people, when clean of 麻薬s, do wish to change their lives."

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