A BURGLAR who travelled into North Yorkshire to target a remote rural home has been jailed for 16 months.

Daniel Paul Khosa, 30, got away with £70 in coins kept in a jar, said Rob Galley, prosecuting, before an alarm at the property went off and he left. He went on to commit other crimes in the two years it took to bring him to justice.

“This was a targeted offence on a remote dwelling house in a hamlet of properties at least eight miles from where you live,” the Honorary Recorder of York, Judge Paul Batty QC told Khosa.

“I have no doubt whatever you would have stolen an awful lot more had you not been disturbed by the burglar alarm.”

Khosa, who gave police an address at Osmondthorpe Lane, Osmondthorpe, Leeds, pleaded guilty to burglary.

York Crown Court heard that after police sent a requisition to the address ordering him to attend court, but he didn’t respond and his solicitors were unable to contact him

He later appeared before a court in Torremolinos, Spain, on a charge related to drugs and was given the Spanish equivalent of a suspended sentence.

He also committed motoring offences and was serving a 12-month prison sentence for aggravated taking of a vehicle, failure to provide a specimen under anti drink and drug driving laws, dangerous driving and driving whilst disqualified when he appeared before York Crown Court. He had previously served 54 months for robberies.

His advocate Sheila Whitehead said his best mitigation was his guilty plea.

Mr Galley said the house was part of a small group of four or five homes in Fairburn.

Police found Khosa's DNA on a latex glove that was dropped near its front door. He also left a footmark linked to shoes taken from him when he was arrested.