Man jailed for Bury St Edmunds burglaries
Lee Chapman was linked to the scene of both crimes using forensic tests
A man has been jailed for four months, after being convicted of involvement in two burglaries in Bury St Edmunds.
It follows a break in at the Nowton Park café overnight between the 6th and 7th of April last year and a separate burglary at Jimmy’s Fish and Chip shop at Hardwick shopping centre betweeen December 29 and 30 2022.
Lee Chapman, 44 and of no fixed address, was linked to the scene though forensic testing on a rock that was used to smash the window of the cafe, and a paving slab used to break into to chip shop.
Chapman, who was wanted on recall to prison and had been living under a false identity, was located by police living in a tent close to Bury's Sainsbury's store.
He admitted two counts of burglary at Ipswich Magistrates Court and also had two further burglary offences taken into consideration.