Double house raid burglar with no legs sped off in wheelchair

A burglar with no legs fled the scene of two break-ins by speeding off in his ­wheelchair, a court was told. Double amputee Leonard Beardmore, 39, was arrested for raiding a grandmother’s home while she slept.

She confronted him in her backyard but he told her he was looking for his dog and made his escape as she was distracted by her own pet. He was tracked down by police, made to give back his £340 loot and bailed.



But despite his first brush with the law, he tried his luck again – this time escaping by climbing out of a window. He had been trapped in the house by his 74-year-old victim, who “saw he had no legs and was on stumps leaning into drawers”, prosecutor Paul Blasbery told Liverpool crown court..

Beardmore, of Sandbach, Cheshire, who has 35 convictions, admitted burglary. Judge Brian Lewis, jailing him for 27 months, said he had taken into account his ­disability. But he added: “That did not prevent you from committing these offences.”