Friday, April 24, 2026
A burglar has been jailed for more than three years after carrying out two high-value break-ins in Poulton-le-Fylde and Preston.
Jamie Higginson (pictured) burgled a flat above a restaurant in Poulton in April last year, which was used to store the restaurant’s alcohol, stealing hundreds of bottles valued around £5,000.
He was arrested for that burglary after attempting to sell bottles of alcohol to a member of the public in a supermarket carpark.
Unfortunately for Higginson, the man he was offering the alcohol for sale to, was an off-duty police chief inspector who called in colleagues to make the arrest.
In February this year, Higginson burgled Harlequin Games, Manchester Road, Preston, a shop which specialises in the sale of rare playing cards and gaming merchandise.
A side window was smashed to gain entry and stock valued between £20,000 and £30,000 was taken.
Higginson had been in the shop a few days earlier and been verbally abusive to a member of staff.
As he left the shop, Higginson kicked the door and dislodged it from the frame, also damaging a window.
Higginson, 28, of no fixed address, appeared for sentence at Preston Crown Court last week (15th April) after pleading guilty to burglary of a dwelling – the flat in Poulton-le-Fylde – burglary of Harlequin Games, and criminal damage.
The judge jailed him for a total of three years and one month and made him subject of a restraining order which bans him from attending Harlequin Games.