London man charged in connection with five Portsmouth burglaries

Officers investigating burglary in Portsmouth have charged a man in connection with five incidents.

Following an investigation by Hampshire Constabulary's specialist burglary team, Operation Hawk, Yusuf Janneh, 20, of Shackleton Way in Newham, has been charged with five counts of dwelling burglary and five counts of fraud by false representation in connection with the following incidents:

• Sometime between 8pm on Wednesday 25 January and 4.30am on Thursday 26 January entry was gained to a property on Newcome Road and a purse was stolen. A bank card inside the purse was later used.
• Sometime between 11pm on  Sunday 29 January and 6.30am on Monday 30 January a property was broken into on Stansted Road and item including a phone, tablet, wallet and a set of car keys were taken. A bank card inside the wallet was later used.
• Between 10.30pm on Friday 3 February and 4.25am on Saturday 4 February entry was gained to a property on Spenlow Close and a set of car keys and a handbag were taken. The keys were used to steal a vehicle from outside, which was later recovered. A bank card inside the handbag was subsequently used.
• Shortly after 4am on Monday 13 February police were alerted to a suspicious vehicle in the Nancy Road car park in Fratton. Officers located the vehicle a short time later on Museum Road and discovered that it was registered to an owner on Kensington Road. There were a number of stolen items inside the vehicle including a laptop, a purse, a mobile phone and a handbag containing various bank cards, some of which had been used. The majority of these items were found to have been taken from an address on St Swithuns Road.

Janneh has been reamanded in custody and is next due to appear at Portsmouth Crown Court on Wednesday 12 April.

We have also arrested an 18-year-old man from Portsmouth in connection with the Kensington Road, Spenlow Close and St Swithuns Road burglaries. He has been released on conditional police bail while our enquiries continue.

A 20-year-old man from London was arrested in connection with the Spenlow Close burglary and has been released on conditional police bail while our enquiries continue.