

Serial thief John Cook broke into the licensed premises between June and November and usually smashed up fruit machines to pocket the cash inside.
A court was told the bungling 39-year-old was snared on each occasion by either leaving an item of clothing or blood at the scene or setting off an intruder alarm.
On his final break-in, at the Lochside pub, in High Heaton, Newcastle, he made off when was confronted by the owners but later tracked down by a police dog.
Now, Cook, who said he was of no fixed abode but is formerly from Coach Road, in Wallsend, is facing a lengthy prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to four counts of burglary and was found guilty after a trial in his absence of a fifth count.
He also admitted a separate charge of theft during a hearing at South East Northumberland Magistrates’ Court.
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