A PROLIFIC offender from Accrington, caught in alleyway close to where a woman’s home had been burgled, has been jailed for 32 months.

Daniel Dwyer insisted he had not been involved in the raid at a house in Meadow Street, Burnley Crown Court was told.

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But Dwyer was captured by a nearby CCTV camera and was eventually discovered with a mobile phone taken during the break-in, the court heard.

He also tried to claim that the mobile had been given back to him following a previous release from custody.

Dwyer, 31, formerly of Dowry Street but said to have last lived at the Salvation Army hostel in Heaton Street, Blackburn, admitted burglary.

Stephen Parker, prosecuting, said Dwyer always accepted he had been in the area but would not initially own up to carrying out the raid, even though he could be soon on security camera footage on a back street, around the time of the incident.

The court heard that the defendant had only been out of prison for just over three weeks, after serving a 134-week term, again for house burglary.

Darren Lee-Smith, mitigating, said Dwyer had not requested a pre-sentence report because he knew what the likely outcome of the case was going to be. The defendant had expressed his desire to meet with the victim of the burglary personally to express his remorse, said Mr Lee-Smith.

Dwyer, who has 46 previous convictions for 70 offences on his criminal record, was jailed for 17 months in March 2013 after he launched an unprovoked attack on a customer outside the Broadway pub in the town.

He attacked victim Christopher Pilkington, hitting him over the head with a glass and leaving a head wound ‘pumping with blood’.