Sutton career crook who stole £10K of jewelry caught later the same day with vintage Omega watch
A Sutton career criminal who broke into a town centre jeweler's and stole £10,000 worth of valuables but was caught later the same day wearing a vintage Omega watch has been jailed.
Kieron Millin smashed a window and climbed into the Time Watch Company, in the Idlewells Indoor Market, at 2.45am on February 12, said Ellesse Taylor, prosecuting.
He pushed over a glass cabinet worth £500 and stuffed jewellery into his jacket pocket, including a £2,900 gold chain, before throwing the till out of the window and fleeing.
He was identified at 8am when CCTV was obtained and police arrested him with three price-tagged rings and the Omega watch.
He told officers he scouted the shop first and grabbed as many items as he could but refused to name the individual he sold them to.
Some items were being repaired and due to be collected by their owners.
The offences put him in breach of three separate suspended sentences for possessing cannabis and blades, in November 2025.
On Friday, Judge Michael Auty KC described him as "a career criminal with an extensive record of acquisitive theft, who has been dealt with for virtually every offence under the Theft Act.”
He has 69 previous convictions for 154 offences, including 57 for theft, and was jailed for commercial and dwelling burglaries in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2019, and for robbery in 2020.
Julia King, mitigating, said the only question was how long Millin will be jailed for, but mentioned he has served some time on remand.
She conceded he hadn't engaged with the probation service, adding he has an entrenched drug problem and was homeless at the time.
"He is 45 now and recognises he has been involved with crime for far too long," said Ms King.
Millin, of Beechwood Close, Sutton, admitted burglary when he appeared at the magistrates’ court.
The judge told him: "This was the owner and his partner's life. They were completely devastated by what you chose to do. A lot of the damage you caused was gratuitous and added enormously to the pain and suffering they endured."
Judge Auty said it is likely Millin sold the jewellery for “a tiny fraction of what it was worth,” before handing him three years and six months in prison.