Two plead guilty to Northampton commercial burglary

Two men have admitted breaking into a Northampton petrol station, with one already sentenced to almost four months’ imprisonment.

Shortly after midnight on Sunday, August 6, Northamptonshire Police was called to Morrison’s fuel station in Victoria Promenade, where officers found offenders had broken in via the roof and tried to get into a safe.

Kalon Luke Farmer, aged 30, was arrested later that day and appeared before Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Monday, August 7.

Farmer, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to one count of burglary other than dwelling with intent to steal and was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison, and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £154 victim surcharge.

A second man, Nathan Vickers, aged 24, was arrested on Tuesday, August 8, after being identified via a CCTV appeal by the Force, and went on to be charged with the same offence.

He appeared before magistrates’ yesterday, Thursday, August 10, and entered a guilty plea.

Vickers, of no fixed address, was remanded on conditional bail and is due to be sentenced at the same court on September 6.