Offences ranged from stealing £10,000 in cash from a business to taking a TV from a church

A burglar admitted stealing over £37,000 in cash and high value goods across a string of break-ins across Sheffield.

Ryan Roxborough has pleaded guilty to a spree of thefts at businesses and homes across South Yorkshire over the summer.

A 32-year-old man pleaded guilty to stealing £37,000 in cash and goods from Sheffield businesses in a spree of break ins across the summer this year. | 3rd party

placeholder image — A 32-year-old man pleaded guilty to stealing £37,000 in cash and goods from Sheffield businesses in a spree of break ins across the summer this year. | 3rd party

It included grabbing £10,000 in cash from My Visas UK on Castle Square in Sheffield in August this year.

The 32-year-old, of Garland Drive, Balby, Doncaster, also stole £4,000 in goods from a flat at The Printworks student accommodation block in Headford Street; £5,000 in items from Exchange Place Studios on Exchange Street and over £8,000 of merchandise from the Deeper Than Blue premises in Wharf Street.

Other targets included £5,000 in cash from the then-newly-opened Somewhere Different play centre on The Moor; £3,500 in cash and goods from Steam & Spice on London Road and £150 in money, chocolate and music speakers from St Mary’s Church.

Roxborough pleaded guilty to a total 11 counts of burglary and one count of attempted burglary, which took place over a period of just three weeks in late July to mid-August this year.

He will be sentenced on December 16.