Beck Row burglar William Parker jailed for 12 months

The victim had fallen asleep on her sofa in her home in Sycamore Close in Beck Row at about 6.40pm and had woken up to find William Parker in her living room, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

He said: “Where is it?” and started looking through some bed covers in the room, said John Livingston, prosecuting.

The woman asked Parker, who appeared to have been drinking, what he was doing in her house and told him to get out.

He then said: “Where are the drugs?” and had raised his voice and put his arms in the air.

The woman left her house and after the incident was upset and crying, said Mr Livingston.

Parker, 34, of Smokehouse View in Beck Row, near Mildenhall, admitted burglary with intent to steal in October last year, six offences of assault on police officers, two offences of criminal damage and using threatening behaviour.

Parker was jailed for 12 months at Ipswich Crown Court (Image: Suffolk police)

The court heard that in a May this year Parker had assaulted four police officers who tried to put him in a police van.

Parker had kicked two of the officers, had spat at a wall and tried to bite two other officers.

In June, Parker tried to get on a train at Bury St Edmunds station but was removed by a conductor because he’d been drinking.

Parker had jumped on to the track and after he was arrested he had scratched an officer’s hand and kicked another officer on the leg.

Benedict Peers, for Parker, accepted the burglary must have been very frightening for the victim.

He said Parker had thought he was in another house when he asked the woman where the drugs were.

He said Parker no longer used drugs and his behaviour had been “that of someone who wasn’t dealing properly with his problems”.