A SERIAL young burglar has been jailed after targeting five businesses in Bournemouth – including three cafés in less than a month.

Harrison Jack Archer, 21 and of Holdenhurst Road, appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday, February 8, after admitting five counts of burglary and an attempted burglary.

The court heard that at around 9pm on Thursday, November 15 2018, two men smashed a window of the Cherries Café in Curzon Road, Boscombe before throwing out a till and leaving the premises.

A further burglary was carried out at Grade 92 Barbering in Southbourne Grove between 6pm on Saturday, November 17, and 8am on Monday 19. A window was smashed and a till stolen.

Shortly before 1am on Friday, November 23, Archer broke into Delice de Champs café in Gervis Place. He was seen to walk round the counter to the till but nothing was stolen.

Another break-in was reported to have happened on the night of Tuesday, December 4, at Little Pickles Café in Christchurch Road. Again, nothing was stolen but a window was smashed.

Following enquiries, evidence was found to link Archer to all four crime scenes, and he was arrested on Thursday, December 6.

He also admitted a burglary on Sunday, January 6, 2019, at the Nail Lounge in Ashley Road and an attempted burglary involving a garage in Hares Green on the same evening. He committed these offences after he had been released on bail by the court with an electrically-monitored curfew following a hearing on Friday, January 4.

He was sentenced to 12 months in prison on February 8.

Sergeant Adam Gill, of Dorset Police’s Priority Crime Team, said: “Harrison Archer is a repeat offender who targeted a number of commercial premises in the Bournemouth area, even when he had been released by the court on bail.

“We are determined to protect businesses in the town from offenders such as Archer, and I’m glad that through our investigative work we were able to identify him as the man responsible for these offences and bring him before the court to be sentenced.

“We recognise the emotional and financial impact this kind of offending can have on members of the business community, and we will continue to work with them to ensure they have appropriate security measures in place to help deter offenders such as Archer.”