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A antheral who burgled 1 of Damien Hirst's studios and was caught by constabulary who traced the movements of his GPS-enabled ankle tag has been jailed.
Liam Middleton-Gomm broke into Thames Wharf Studios successful westbound London connected 30 June and stole astir £5,130 of goods, including physics items, covering and a pram.
The 36-year-old, of nary fixed abode, smashed the model beside a occurrence exit and reached successful to activate its shutter and participate the building, authoritative Paul Andrews told Kingston Crown Court connected Thursday.
The burglar, who has dozens of erstwhile convictions, had attended the workplace doubly that evening and went to his father's spot with immoderate of the stolen goods, the tribunal heard.
It is understood Middleton-Gomm stole aggregate leather jackets that were being embellished, arsenic good arsenic trousers, embroidered shirts and a Dior pram with metallic skulls connected its wheels.
Some of the spot was sold connected and has not been recovered.
Middleton-Gomm's father, Leslie Gomm, 62, of Fulham, westbound London, antecedently pleaded blameworthy to handling stolen goods for his son's benefit.
He was fixed a one-year conditional discharge connected Thursday aft having been successful custody for 3 and a fractional months earlier his sentencing.
The prosecution said Middleton-Gomm visited his father's spot doubly that evening, but Gomm did not cognize the workplace was being burgled.
Police charged the burglar aft examining information from his GPS ankle tag and DNA astatine the scene, Mr Andrews told the court.
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Judge Martyn Barklem sentenced Middleton-Gomm to 32 months successful prison.
He said: "You were really wearing a GPS tag that was portion of your licence conditions erstwhile you were carrying retired these offences."
He added: "Your appalling erstwhile grounds is of people a superior aggravating factor".
The tribunal heard Middleton-Gomm has 39 erstwhile convictions involving 83 offences, including aggregate location burglaries.
Middleton-Gomm had pleaded blameworthy to 2 counts of burgling Hirst's riverside studio.
He was besides sentenced for 2 location burglaries connected 9 and 17 July, arsenic good arsenic the attempted burglary of a spot connected 9 July.
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