A prolific burglar who has spent most of his adult life in prison is back behind bars after he struck at two homes in Nottingham.
Mudasser Ahmed, 42, previously of Forest Fields, took a man's wallet from the kitchen of his shared flat in Radford Road, Nottingham, at 8am on September 26, 2019.
The victim was notified by Halifax that his bank card had been used twice at 8.08am to buy booze, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Tuesday, July 13.
Ahmed was charged with the Radford Road burglary after CCTV showed him leaving his home address at 7.50am, walking to the flat and running back shortly afterwards.
Ahmed was then on bail for that matter when he burgled a building containing several flats, in North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, on April 13 this year. He had also tried several doors to homes - which resulted in him asking for the judge to take five attempted burglaries into consideration.
Jon Fountain, prosecuting, said Ahmed had tried courtyard doors leading to individual flats and a number of shared entrances.
He could be seen by one resident through glass in her door.
A student called to other students who were outside to look for Ahmed and saw him emerge from the shared entrance to three flats.
"He plainly saw the group of students there, uttered words and gesticulated towards them and they (the students) thought better of tackling him," said Mr Fountain. "They alerted the property manager".
The manager challenged Ahmed who fled before police caught up with him.
He pleaded guilty to the two burglaries.
He was previous sent to prison over fraud with the bank card from the Radford Road burglary.
The court heard he has 24 previous convictions for 66 offences. This was the eighth time he was before the court for dwelling burglaries.
Claire Moran, mitigating, said, on behalf of Ahmed, who is of no fixed address, there had been no probation intervention for 15 years and his drug use is the sole cause of his offending.
"He has spent most of his adult life in prison," she said. "At this stage in his life he is motivated to get clean of drugs. He has a mentally unstable personality disorder".
Judge Julie Warburton described him as a "prolific burglar". She sentenced him on each burglary, which he admitted, to three years in prison concurrently, of which he will serve half before he is released on licence.
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