Hamza Javed was arrested within hours of committing the second burglary by our fast responding officers.
He claimed he acted as a lookout while his two accomplices forced their way into a home on Potter Close, Erdington overnight on 18 August last year while the family, including their young children, slept upstairs.
They stole thousands of pounds worth of jewellery and other items from the house, before making off with a black VW Golf and a Mercedes, which was later tracked and found on College Road, Birmingham.
The following night, on 19 August, the trio targeted a home on Robin Hood Lane, Hall Green at just after 2am while the family slept upstairs. They took a purse and car keys from inside before stealing two Mercedes cars from the driveway.
Within minutes traffic officer PC Steven Franklin was on scene and recorded local CCTV footage onto his body cam of a black VW Golf, which the three men had pulled up to the house in.
