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Thief admits to string of Sedgemoor burglaries

5:00pm Monday 8th March 2010


A PROLIFIC Lithuanian thief living in Bridgwater could be deported back to his home country, after being jailed for a 'campaign of burglary'.

Vitalijus Rolduginas, 27, of Sydenham Road, admitted stealing around £15,000 worth of jewellery, cash and electrical goods in a string of house burglaries across Sedgemoor between September and November last year.

He was sentenced at Taunton Crown Court on Friday to four years in prison.

The court heard that Rolduginas - who was sentenced to seven years for manslaughter in his home country back in 2000 - was arrested by police after a car spotted around the time of a burglary near Taunton was linked to him.

Items from another burglary at a house in Wedmore were then recovered in a search of his house.

Police officers then drove Rolduginas around various villages in the district, where he admitted to seven more burglaries - including in Lympsham, Middlezoy, Ashcott, Chilton Polden and East Huntspill.

Harry Ahuja, defending, said Rolduginas was battling to support a partner and two daughters back home in Lithuania.

He said Rolduginas had been made redundant and had a number of debts.

Mr Ahuja also pointed to Rolduginas' early guilty plea and his willingness to help police identify more of his burglaries.

Judge Graham Hume Jones said he did not have the power to send Rolduginas back to Lithuania, but would strongly recommend he be deported.

Judge Hume Jones said: “You went on a determined campaign to burgle people's houses purely for financial gain for yourself.

“Burglary of people's houses is regarded as very serious indeed. Anyone who has been burgled feels their life has been defiled.”


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townrunbyclowns, bridgwater says...
11:30am Tue 9 Mar 10

send him home the the tea leaf

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fegmaniac, Bridgwater says...
12:28pm Tue 9 Mar 10

Deport him to Rockall for six months. If he is still there in September then let him back ;-)

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andelain, Bridgwater says...
4:05pm Tue 9 Mar 10

Why the HELL did we let him come here in the first place? He was a convicted criminal. Whats wrong with this stupid country? Send him back to serve his time in his own country.

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townrunbyclowns, bridgwater says...
11:10pm Tue 9 Mar 10

he came here and took the full p...!! out of this country, go home and live in your own jail

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junction23, Woolavington says...
7:50am Wed 10 Mar 10

Lets be realistic – he will only spend a couple of months in prison, he won’t get deported and the Great British welfare state will undoubtedly assist his family to move over here so they can enjoy a cushy life on benefits all thanks to the current government………
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townrunbyclowns, bridgwater says...
10:26am Wed 10 Mar 10

he will now get the full benfits new home.credit cards,new car, theres alot people in worse states than him but they dont go robbing!!! and whos great idea was it to join the E,U?..sod the e.u

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Donna-T, Croydon says...
1:05pm Thu 11 Mar 10

"......could be deported" could be the operative word, but in reality he won't because we don't have the power to do this because of his *Human Rights*, the irony is he will be pampered whilst in prison, costing us financially dearly too, the British National Party would withdraw from the European Union and abolish the human rights legislation and bring in a bill of rights (something that was promised by Europhile Cameron then dropped like a hot potato) the British National Party would not deport him because he would never have been allowed in this country in the first place with a criminal record!

No doubt he will be released early from the overcrowded prisons to continue his crime spree on the poor unsuspecting people of Bridgwater.

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Gordon S, Bridgwater says...
7:55pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Gee whiz Donna-T Croydon, if you can't express yourself with the written word better than that I say, let twinkles or townrunbyclowns stand for election.
Perhaps even vote for I L-G again.

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townrunbyclowns, bridgwater says...
11:21pm Thu 11 Mar 10

gordon s go back to your council office and look out the window and see this town overflowing with the east european people!!

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twinkles, says...
12:05pm Fri 12 Mar 10

Does everything have to be a political debate at the moment? To be honest, I feel that whoever is in control of the reins, we'd be baying for blood about issues such as this. Fact is, Donna, you're not in power. You can 'if' and 'but' as much as you like, but your political party have been show up to be racist bigots and that's a big ask come election time.
This 'person' shouldn't have ever been allowed in, but as far as I'm concerned, only the people who LIVE in this town have got a voice about this. And Donna, you are not one of us. So please, think before you write remarks about local issues. Unless of course you're moving here?

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townrunbyclowns, bridgwater says...
11:08pm Fri 12 Mar 10

good luck donna..hope you get in and get clown grainger out nice to see a mp doing what people want!!

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Gordon S, Bridgwater says...
11:18am Mon 15 Mar 10

Oh dear townrunbyclowns.

What a CLOWN you are.

Donna is NOT an MP.

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