A HOUSEBREAKER is finally behind bars after five years on the run.

Daniel Lingurar, 25, stole electronics and cosmetics from two flats in Glasgow’s Govanhill area in February and March 2014.

Lingurar, whose fingerprints were found in both homes, was arrested but given bail and returned home to Romania then worked in France and Ireland.

He returned to Glasgow in January with his pregnant wife and was arrested.

Lingurar pleaded guilty today at Glasgow Sheriff Court to the two housebreakings.

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He also admitted failing to appear at a court hearing in August 2016.

The court heard Lingurar entered the first property by overcoming a secure lock system.

Lingurar swiped a Samsung Galaxy phone valued at several hundred pounds and perfume worth £100.

Eighteen days later, Lingurar broke into another property through a window.

Prosecutor Mark Allan told the court Lingurar took a camera, jewellery and electronics totalling £3,651.44.

Lingurar was snared by police who found his fingerprints at both properties.

He was released on bail in 2015 but failed to appear again at court. 

Lawyer, Michael Poggi, defending, told the court Lingurar worked in France and Ireland before returning to Scotland. 

Lingurar, who was working at a cash and carry in the city’s Possilpark, answered a warrant and was arrested by police in January.

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Mr Poggi added: “These offences happened when he was younger and new to Glasgow.

“He was associating with people in the Roma community when he shouldn’t have been.

“He was mixing with the wrong people as a young man but now has family commitments.”

Sentence was deferred until next month for background reports by Sheriff Lindsay Wood, who remanded Lingurar in custody.

He told Lingurar, who has a previous conviction for robbery: “I have no time at all for people who break into properties.

“It is a disgusting thing to do and you don’t realise how bad an effect that has on house owners - it scars them for life.”

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