A COALPIT Heath man who broke into homes and stole the keys to cars that were then driven off has been jailed for more than four years.
Deniz Dikmen, aged 20, admitted four charges of burglary relating to a house in Yate, one in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol and two in Cam, Gloucestershire.
Police said two BMW and two Mercedes cars were stolen, one from each address raided by Dikmen.
Only one of them, a Mercedes, has been recovered.
Dikmen admitted four burglary charges at Bristol Crown Court in October.
‘Ongoing operation’
A charge of possessing criminal property was not pursued by the prosecution.
Yesterday, Dikmen was sentenced to four years and two months’ detention in a Young Offenders’ Institution.
An Avon and Somerset police spokesperson said the charges against him are part of an “ongoing operation to tackle car-key burglaries”, adding: “A dedicated team is proactively targeting those committing these offices across the Avon and Somerset policing area.”