Not that we’re experts on the matter or anything, but if you’re going to rob a house, you shouldn’t really leave a mobile phone with your picture on it behind as evidence.
Jason Glennon, however, obviously hadn’t read the Burglary for Dummies handbook prior to raiding a house in Blanchardstown recently and was nabbed after Gardai discovered a picture of him on a stolen mobile phone that he had left behind at the scene.
According to this morning’s Irish Daily Star, Glennon had earlier stolen the phone – a pink Nokia for God’s sake – along with a rucksack from an unlocked car, but left both items behind him after fleeing when an occupant of the house he was trying to loot discovered him in a bedroom and chased him out.
Glennon didn’t go without a fight, however. As he was running from the house and its understandably annoyed owner, he chucked a PlayStation in the direction of his assailant in an attempt to buy himself some time.
That might have saved him for a little while, but the letter of the law eventually caught up with Glennon when Gardai discovered the picture on the mobile phone, with a Garda confirming in court that Glennon had taken it himself.
Glennon, who is also a drug addict, had only been released from jail for a similar offence the following day and had 53 previous convictions for other burglary and stolen property offences.
While the picture on the mobile phone was undoubtedly what gave him away, it has also been suggested that the fact that he went around wearing a striped black and white long-sleeved t-shirt, a black hat and carrying a bag with a dollar sign on it also raised suspicions.
