A Bolton judge has given a serial offender with a class A drug addiction another chance after hearing he was making efforts to turn his life around. Ryan Haywood, of Chorley New Road, entered a home on Young Street, Farnworth , with the intent to steal. Prosecutor Megan Edwards told the court that the occupier of the home had taken pain medication and forgotten to lock her doors on Saturday, February 24.
At nearly 4.30am, the occupant was woken up and went into her living room to ask ‘who is it’ when a man, identified later as Haywood, responded ‘it’s me, Ryan’, before changing his answer to ‘it’s me, Paul’. Sign up to our newsletters to get the latest stories sent straight to your inbox.
Ring doorbell footage shown to the court showed Haywood – who was under the influence of drugs – approaching the front door of the Young Street home several times 3.51am and 4.26am, and telling the occupant: “I’ve been beat up, I’ve been stabbed.
” Police were called, and an officer later recognised Haywood – who has seven previous convictions for 29 offences – from the footage provided. Judge Nicholas Clarke KC said Haywood had “only just been released when he was back to burglary” at the time of the offence. He was picked up by police on June 4 after being sighted at a pub in Farnworth.
In custody, the court heard Haywood answered ‘no comment’ to all questions asked. In a victim personal statement read out by Ms Edwards, the occupier says the incident.