Locations
Mornington Crescent, Drury, Buckley, Flintshire, CH7
Description
Not on official sex offenders register.
A hardworking McDonald's staff member lived a secret double life as a burglar breaking into houses to steal womens underwear.
John Junior Sillah worked at the fast food restaurant in Mold during the day and was valued there. But once he had had a drink, he was unable to control his urges and twice broke into one womans house to steal her knickers in order to satisfy his fetish.
In between two of the break-ins, he sent the terrified woman a Facebook friend request.
He had first broken into one womans home in April last year, but went back again on Christmas Day and stole more.
On the same day, he burgled other homes in Mold . One young woman had been out when he rifled through her knicker drawer. Along the same road, at around 2.20am on Christmas morning, a man was awoken by Sillah standing at the foot of his bed. Sillah fled with the mans coat.
At Caernarfon crown court today, his defence barrister Oliver King described him as not a conventional burglar, and argued for a novel approach to sentencing him.
He said: He seems to have led a double life working at McDonalds at Mold during the day and hes valued there, yet he has this fetish. When he has a drink, it disinhibits him.
Psychiatric reports found Sillah had a mental disorder which could be controlled when he was sober.
Judge David Hale, sentencing Sillah, said it seemed that he had this compulsion to steal underwear.
Sillah pleaded guilty to four burglaries and one attempted burglary. A 2012 offence was also taken into consideration.
Judge Hale told him: These offences are far too serious for me to look to any non-custodial option.
He jailed Sillah, 20, of Mornington Crescent in Buckley, for two-and-a-half years.