Elderly burglar’s sentence reduced

The High Appeals Court has reduced the sentence issued against a Bahraini man convicted of burglary. The Bahraini man was arrested after he carried out a spate of burglaries by breaking into villas in a housing compound in Hamala.

According to court files, the defendant climbed the compound wall to enter inside the enclave before breaking into villas, from where he stole BD250 and a watch worth over BD15,000. “I saw him inside the compound and when I asked him to stop, he fled. He climbed up the fence surrounding the property and I held onto his legs.

However, he kicked my face several times and I let him go,” the security man who was on duty told prosecutors. “On the next day, I was told of the valuables that the man had burgled,” he added.