2021-10-19
Teen jailed for burglaries at gated retirement complex
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Nolan acknowledged evidence from Moorehouse's mother that he was under the influence of his father, who has an extensive criminal record but added "at a certain point everyone is a master of their own destiny". "He knows that it is wrong to burgle and to burgle old people is particularly wrong," the judge said. "I think there is hope for rehabilitation but does he have the stomach for it, I am not sure," Judge Nolan said before he suspended the final 15 months of a five-year prison sentence on condition that Moorehouse engage with the Probation Service for 15 months upon his ultimate rel