A MAN has been jailed for his part in a raid on Brocks convenience store in Rockwell Green in addition to a string of offences across Somerset and Dorset.
Luke Spencer, 35, of Dorset, was jailed for three years and one month at Taunton Crown Court after pleading guilty to seven burglaries, an attempted burglary, of being equipped to steal, assault causing ABH and driving without insurance.
The offences were part of a four-month crime spree carried out from January to April this year, which targeted towns across Somerset and Dorset.
Emma Hendry, 47, of Bridgwater, who was arrested after an April raid on Brocks for ‘conspiring to commit burglary other than a dwelling’, has pleaded guilty to one count of burglary in connection with the Rockwell Green raid and is awaiting sentencing in Taunton Crown Court on September 4.
Investigating officer PC Brennan Brown said: “Luke Spencer is a prolific criminal who repeatedly broke into commercial addresses to steal tobacco products for his own gain.
“Spencer had no choice but to plead guilty due to the evidence we gathered. I hope his pleas along with the sentence he has subsequently received, provide some reassurance to the businesses he targeted and the wider community how seriously both the police and the courts take this kind of offending.”
It follows what is thought to have been “hundreds” of pounds worth of tobacco products being stolen from the Brocks store by Spencer and Hendry.