TWO heroin addicts, who burgled the home of a blind and deaf pensioner as she slept upstairs, phoned a taxi to pick them up after they stole from her home, a court heard.
Dean Nicholls and Daniel Hughes used a hammer to break into Violet Raybone’s home near Blackwood at around 3.45am on April 26.
They smashed a window of a conservatory and used keys, which were left inside the door, to left themselves in.
Caerphilly Magistrates' Court heard the pair, who had taken a "cocktail" of drugs that night, stole a 32ins television, jewellery, cash in £2 coins, a CD player, ten bottles of alcohol and frozen meat and ready meals, with a total value of around £1,000.
The brazen pair then used the pensioner’s home phone to call a taxi to collect them around 5.45am, before ripping the phone line out of the wall.
Their 79-year-old victim, who the court heard is "very deaf" and almost "totally blind", lay unaware of the attack as she slept upstairs.
Neighbours first spotted the men around 3.45am but called police around 5.45am when they saw them standing outside the home with the pensioner’s belongings.
Hughes, 25, of High Street, Fleur-de-Lys, and Nicholls 34, of South Street Bargoed, loaded the items in the taxi and went to an address in Gilfach to pay a £20 debt. They then went on to Hughes’ address where they unloaded the rest of the items.
The court heard they did not deliberately target the house and carried out the burglary to fund a heroin habit.
The duo were arrested the next day after police identified them from CCTV footage.
They both pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary and were remanded in custody until they are sentenced at Newport Crown Court on May 24.
