Overview
- Neville Stanbury was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday to three years and four months after pleading guilty to seven burglaries, one attempted burglary and breaching a criminal behaviour order.
- Prosecutors linked a series of commercial break‑ins across the City of London between December 2025 and April 2026 with CCTV and a repeated pattern, saying the raids took about £19,570 worth of laptops, phones and tablets.
- Police interviews recorded Stanbury admitting he committed some offences to fund his heroin habit and making remarks such as “you’re lucky I’m not grooming girls,” which the court cited as evidence of a flippant attitude to his crimes.
- The court heard Stanbury has about 50 previous convictions covering roughly 140 offences over more than 30 years and that a ten‑year criminal behaviour order banning him from the Square Mile had been imposed after an earlier burglary campaign.
- Judge Christopher Hehir said past community measures and rehabilitation attempts had failed, warned Stanbury he faces severe risk if he continues using heroin in custody, and stressed that breaching a CBO can lead to heavier sentences.