A young woman was left frozen with fear as she woke in the middle of the night to find a burglar staring at her. A court was told that she lived in a bottom floor flat that was targeted by Wayne Williams.
The court heard that the woman had left a window slightly open due to warm weather. Having closed the curtains and gone to bed at around midnight, she was woken in the early hours "by the sound of heavy breathing", prosecutor Sion ap Mihangel said.
Mr ap Mighangel told Caernarfon Crown Court that Williams had targeted the flat in Edmond Street in the city on April 5 last year. Appearing at court, Williams admitted burglary with intent to steal.
The court was told that the woman was left frozen with fear as she woke to find that Williams had pulled back the curtains and was watching her sleep. Williams, previously of Beach Road in Bangor, was tracked down, arrested and interviewed by the police about this and another similar matter for which he was previously jailed.
He told police he had not long been released from prison for a separate offence, but couldn't remember if he had committed either of the offences at the time. Mitigating, Dafydd Roberts, accepted there was little that could be said on behalf of his client, reports NorthWalesLive.
He acknowledged that the judge had no option but to extend Williams' prison sentence as though the two burglary matters were dealt with at the same time. Judge Rhys Rowlands labelled the defendant as "a career burglar who is completely unwilling to change his ways", with eight offences now on his record with this matter. "It must have been truly terrifying," said the judge when commenting on what the young homeowner would have felt upon seeing him hanging through her bedroom window.
He said: "Unbeknown to the court, at the time I passed sentence in April 2022, you had committed not one but two burglaries that night. They were both night time invasions of young women's homes."
Judge Rowlands said that Williams' only saving grace was that he pleaded guilty to the offence, allowing a minimal discount to his sentence. The court imposed an extra eight months to be added on top of the defendant's ongoing sentence, which now stands at three years and four months.
