A man who tried to burgle a Cowbit home has been jailed after being caught by Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire Police

Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire Police joined forces to catch a man who tried to burgle two homes - one of which was in Cowbit.

Michael Dear (25), of Armthorpe Road in Doncaster, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted burglary and was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison at Cambridge Crown Court yesterday (Wednesday, July 28).

Dean was initially caught on CCTV footage at a home in Cowbit at 3.30pm on June 28. It showed him scouting out the property before returning with a group of accomplices, for whom he acted as a getaway driver.

He sounded the horn when home owners returned, and the group fled the scene.

Around 9pm on the same day, officers were called to a burglary in Gunthorpe, Peterborough, where Dear was again found in a getaway car.

He managed to sound the car horn again to alert his accomplices, but was arrested himself and found to be wearing the same clothes shown in the earlier CCTV footage.

Det Con Craig Trevor of Cambridgeshire Police said: "Dear is a prolific offender, having been jailed back in 2019 for his part in a number of burglaries targeting high-performance cars, jewellery and dogs across the region.

"He was brazen in his crimes and cocky enough to think he wouldn’t get caught. Unluckily for him, by working alongside Lincolnshire Police we did manage to catch up with him and bring him to justice once again.

"Burglary can have a devastating impact on victims, which is why tackling it is one of our priorities. We are working hard every day to bring offenders before the courts."