A Hastings man who committed more than 50 burglaries during a four-month spree, costing his victims over $150,000, has been jailed for eight years.
William Titera Casey, 31, admitted 55 charges of burglary, one of attempted burglary and one of possessing tools for the commission of burglary when he appeared in Napier District Court on Tuesday.
He was on parole from a February 2005 sentence of four years for 14 burglaries when he committed the spree, from November 2008 to February this year, and had a total of 95 burglary convictions, Hawke's Bay Today reported.
Judge Geoff Rea sentenced Casey to a minimum of five years and three months without parole in Napier District Court.
Judge Rea said Casey was not in a position to pay reparation for at least $110,000 of missing cash and property and $64,000 worth of damage caused when he and an associate broke into an array of buildings, including commercial and rural properties, local authority buildings, schools and an SPCA.
