A heroin addict who went on a $90,000-plus burglary spree will be sentenced at Supreme Court after a Magistrate decided he deserved greater punishment than he could give.

Stephen Andre Wilson, 46, pleaded guilty on August 28 to a total of 26 burglary and fraud offences.

The charges included ten housebreakings committed in Smith?s, Pembroke and Sandys. Among the items in the haul he netted between July 27 and August 22 were gold jewellery, cameras and a child?s knapsack, plus cash and a number of Bank of Butterfield cheques.

In a burglary at the Cycle Care store in Pembroke on August 6 he stole more than $41,000 of goods.

Wilson, of no fixed address, also faced theft charges and charges of presenting false Bank of Butterfield cheques. He has asked the court to take a further 15 matters into consideration, including taking vehicles without consent, burglary and obtaining property by fraud.

When he came back before Magistrates? Court he repeated remarks that he had made at a previous court appearance about how he relapsed into heroin addiction and crime after his 14-year-old son died in a bike crash in August, 2004.

He begged for an opportunity to help himself, telling Acting Senior Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo: ?My intention is to enrol with all the programmes regarding the root cause of my problem ? my addiction ? and try and stay off drugs.?

However, Mr. Tokunbo told him: ?You have an atrocious record of criminal convictions.?

He said he had served a number of terms of imprisonment ? the longest being four years.

?The offences you are now before the court for are horrendous in nature. You continue to violate the property of others, only taking into account your own desires,? he said.

Mr. Tokunbo added that the maximum sentence he could give Wilson for any of the offences was five years ? and considering his history of offending he felt greater punishment than that should be imposed. Wilson was remanded back into custody.