Thief jailed for stealing and using bank cards in Taunton
36 year old Anthony Baugh from Oxford appeared at Taunton Crown Court last week
A thief has been jailed for just under two and a half years after stealing three bank cards from a house in Taunton and using them for fast food, at a pub and at a supermarket.
36 year old Anthony Baugh from Oxford pleaded guilty to one residential burglary and 11 counts of fraud by false representation following the incidents earlier this year.
He appeared in Taunton Crown Court last Wednesday (May 25).
The burglary happened at about 10.15pm on Saturday 14 January at a home in Mount Street, Taunton.
Baugh made his way in through an unlocked door while the occupants were upstairs.
He then took bank cards belonging to the owners of the house before using them at a 'number of businesses' before the theft was spotted by the victims the next morning.
Baugh, of Barton Village Road in Oxford, received a prison sentence of 876 days and must pay a £228 victim surcharge.
PC Brennan Brown, officer in the case, said: “The victims did the right thing in cancelling their bank cards and reporting the matter to the police as soon as they realised what had happened.
“Officers, including those within our dedicated burglary team, worked together in order to achieve this conviction, with the offender identified following a trawl of CCTV footage.
“We hope convictions such as this act as a deterrent to criminals and continue to give the public confidence to report incidents to us to investigate.”