{"id":82357,"date":"2017-07-07T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=40cb3a826867c03655e2ca9817757691"},"modified":"2017-07-07T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T15:27:00","slug":"press-release-burglar-who-targeted-the-elderly-jailed-for-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=82357","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Burglar who targeted the elderly jailed for longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A burglar who targeted the elderly will spend more time in prison after Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC MP referred his original sentence to the Court of Appeal as unduly lenient.<\/p>\n<p>Felix Joseph Hanrahan, 29, committed 13 burglaries in Durham and Northumbria.  Posing as a water board official checking water supplies for contamination he managed to get into people\u2019s homes. He stole cash and jewellery with a total value of at least \u00a32585.<\/p>\n<p>Hanrahan deliberately targeted elderly, vulnerable people \u2013 many of whom lived alone. Some of the victims also suffered from medical conditions including dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Hanrahan was originally sentenced to 3 years 9 months in prison at Newcastle upon Tyne Crown Court.  He will now serve 7 years 6 months behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the hearing, the Attorney General said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a planned operation with vulnerable, elderly people being the target.  The original sentence failed to take proper account of the seriousness of this offending and the effect the burglaries had on the victims\u2019 lives.  I am pleased the Court has increased the prison term.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A burglar who targeted the elderly has sentence increased to 7 years and 6 months following ULS referral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}