A MAN told care home staff he was attempting to install cameras when he was caught coming out of a vulnerable resident's room in the middle of the night.

Ross Gary Milburn, aged 38 and of no fixed abode, has been jailed for three years after admitting to breaking into a Bournemouth care home earlier this year.

Staff at the residential care home in Boscombe Spa Road responded to an alarm in one of the resident's rooms in the early hours of Saturday, February 4.

Each room in the care home has an alarm fitted, which indicates if a resident needs assistance or someone has stepped out of the room.

Staff found the resident asleep in the room where the alarm was coming from, but the wardrobe doors were open and the light was on.

A short time later the alarm sounded in another room. Staff attended and found a man coming out of the room.

He was wearing medical gloves and claimed he was there planting cameras in the rooms.

The man was escorted off the premises by staff, who then discovered the room where the man was emerging from had been ransacked.

Police were called and found a rucksack and bumbag containing two screwdrivers as well as a passport and cards in the name of Ross Milburn near to the property.

CCTV footage from the building first captured the man at 3.37am and he was escorted out at 4.02am.

Milburn was arrested in the Boscombe area five days later on Thursday, February 9.

He was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court on Thursday (May30).

Police Constable Chris Raspini, of Bournemouth CID, said: “Due to the nature of the conditions of the residents involved it was not possible to establish whether anything was actually stolen but it is clear Milburn entered the premises with the intent to steal from these vulnerable people.

“I hope this sentence sends out a message that offences such as this will not be tolerated and offenders will be brought to justice.”