A serial burglar from Southend has been warned he faces a prison sentence after pleading guilty to a burglary in his own street.
Jahidul Hoque, 32, of York Road, pleaded guilty to the stealing a television at Basildon Crown Court on Wednesday (August 27).
He admitted the offence via video link from Chelmsford Prison.
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The court heard Hoque stole a 50-inch TV from a flat in York Road on July 28.
Judge Shane Collery warned the theft constituted a “third strike”, which carries a minimum sentence of three years.
He had prior convictions for four burglaries, but the last one had been in 2012.
Hoque committed his latest burglary whilst subject to a court-imposed community order, but the brief plea hearing did not hear why that had been imposed.
Hoque will be sentenced in the week beginning September 8.
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