THESE are the burglars who have committed break-ins to businesses across Bournemouth.

The five have been brought before the courts following a series of burglaries over the festive period of 2017 and into the new year.

Lewis Gibson, 37 and of Worbarrow Gardens in Poole, was sentenced to two years in prison at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday, February 2 after admitting five commercial burglaries.

He broke in to businesses Mane Street Hair Salon and Zorba in Old Christchurch Road during December. During the same month, he also raided the Lost Paradise in Exeter Road and restaurant The Stable in Westover Road.

Gibson also asked for a further 40 burglary offences to be taken into consideration when he was sentenced, and admitted two shoplifting offences and a fraud charge relating to the use of bank cards taken during one of the burglaries.

Homeless Daniel Upson, 42, also admitted the burglary offences at Zorba, The Lost Paradise and The Stable.

He appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday, March 9, when he was sentenced to 29 months in prison for the offences as well as two charges of theft from a motor vehicle, three charges of fraud by false representation and breaching a criminal behaviour order.

Simon Charles Tyldesley, 46 and of no fixed abode, was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, January 9 after admitting three burglary offences.

He was responsible for break-ins at Druitts Solicitors in Fir Vale Road, the Smart Skin beauty salon in Charminster Road and Yaawin Global Spicy Supermarket. All were committed in December.

Officers alerted to the burglary at Yaawin Global Spicy Supermarket discovered Tyldesley hiding in a loft. Cigarettes stolen from the store were found in a holdall he had with him.

Dean Anthony Pennett, 48 and of no fixed abode, was sentenced to four weeks in jail at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, January 4 after admitting stealing cash from the Richmond Arms in Charminster Road.

Pennett was still on licence in relation to a previous burglary, for which he had received a three-year jail term. He was also recalled to prison for that offence.

Lee Stacey, 33 and of no fixed abode, was sentenced to four weeks in prison in November last year after admitting a commercial burglary at the Cosy Club in Old Christchurch Road, as well as five other offences he asked to be taken into consideration on sentence.

The offences also put Stacey in breach of two suspended sentence orders - one of four months and one of 12 weeks imprisonment - that were also activated by the court.

Detective Inspector Neil Wright, of Dorset Police’s priority and volume crime team, said: “We have always been totally committed to protecting our business community from this type of acquisitive crime and I hope these cases demonstrate the efforts that officers have been making in recent weeks to identify those responsible and bring them to justice.

“Each case has involved detailed investigative work and I would like to praise my team and those involved across the force for their efforts."

He said officers won't stop in their efforts to support business owners.

“I would also urge members of the business community to work with us by reporting any suspicious activity and to support each other," he said.

Deputy Neighbourhood Inspector Guy Nicholas, of Bournemouth police, added: “The impact that these types of offences have on the business community can be wide reaching.

“Through extra patrols and appropriate briefing of officers we have helped to bring these offenders before the courts."