A teenager who dragged an elderly woman off of the toilet before snatching her bracelet has been jailed - three years after the robbery.
Donatus Ratkus was aged just 16 when he and an accomplice hurled a brick through a window of the victim’s detached home on September 22, 2018.
While ransacking the property in Coventry, the pair heard the 86-year-old woman in the downstairs toilet.
Ratkus burst in and hauled the terrified victim off the loo before ripping off her bracelet and fleeing.
Ratkus was arrested seven days later for two separate burglaries after his blood was found at two other break-ins in the city.
He was nailed by DNA matches and jailed for 27 months for the September 14 offences.
Officers later used phone tracing technology and forensics to link him to the first burglary.
He was jailed for four-and-a-half years when he appeared at Warwick Crown Court on Monday.
Ratkus, now aged 19, will be deported to Lithuania when he’s served his sentence.
Detective Constable Chris Parry, from West Midlands Police, said: “This was a really nasty offence.
“A defenceless woman was assaulted in her own home and subjected to a terrifying ordeal.
“Ratkus had already been jailed for two other burglaries but we were determined to get justice for this lady and her family.”
