21-year-old jailed for burgling two neighbours' homes in Kelso

A 21-year-old man has been jailed for four months for carrying out thefts from two of his neighbours’ homes in Kelso.
By Court Reporter
Published 20th Apr 2020, 10:16 BST
Updated 20th Apr 2020, 10:17 BST
Maxmill Park in Kelso.Maxmill Park in Kelso.
Maxmill Park in Kelso.

David Cotton pleaded guilty to two allegations of theft by housebreaking committed at properties in the town’s Maxmill Park on Saturday, March 14.

He stole electronic items from one house and a television and DVD player from another.

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Cotton’s prison sentence was backdated to Monday, March 16, that being when he was first remanded in custody in connection with the break-ins.

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He was also appearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court for breaching a community payback order imposed for assaulting a teenager to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement in Hawick’s Wellfield Road in February 2019.

Because he was jailed, though, no further order was made against Cotton, now of Maxmill Park but formerly of Wilton Crescent in Hawick, in relation to that offence.