Caught after leading police on chase from school raid into river
A blind burglar has been jailed for his 192nd offence after leading police on a chase from school raid into a river.
Paul Anthony Gibson, 55, is registered blind but has a degree of partial vision which enables him to walk using a stick.
But Carlisle Crown Court heard last Friday how his terrible eyesight has not stopped him raking up a string of 191 previous criminal offences.
Last August 24th Cumbria Police were alerted to a break-in at the now derelict residential school Eden Grove, near Appleby.
They caught Gibson red-handed but he jumped into a river and tried in vain to escape officers by wading half-blind through the water.
Now he has been jailed for five months after admitting burglary and resisting a police officer.
The Telegraph, By Telegraph Reporters, 01/10/2017
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