The evidence showed a ‘significant degree of planning and organisation’
Bailey Jennison was handed a three-year prison sentence for multiple car thefts and burglaries(Image: Submitted)
A car thief who used a blow torch to attempt to break into homes and vehicles across Hull and northern Lincolnshire has been jailed. Bailey Jennison, 21, of Reeth Walk, Hull, was sentenced to three years in prison at Hull Crown Court on Monday. The court heard how Jennison broke into homes in the night and took victims’ cars, snapping locks and tampering with security lights and cameras.
On May 24, 2024, a victim was awoken by a car horn and music playing outside their east Hull home. The man looked out of the window to see his wife’s BMW being driven out of the driveway by two offenders wearing balaclavas. The car was reversed into a bollard, at which point Jennison and an accomplice abandoned the car. The victim found the car’s side door had been blow torched and a window broken to gain access. A mobile phone traced back to Jennison was found in the car.
On February 4, 2025, Jennison’s DNA was found on wires at a victim’s home in Brigg, where a security light had been tampered with and a rear door lock had been attempted to be broken using heat. Despite the lock being tampered with, Jennison did not gain access to this home. Later that night, another victim in Scunthorpe was woken to the sound of a car starting up. She later discovered her red Mercedes M200 RGH had been stolen, and the lock to her door had been snapped. The car was later spotted driving across the Humber Bridge, then found abandoned after being crashed in Hull. No one was inside the car when police arrived, but a propane canister was found inside one of the footwells.
The vehicle owner said in a statement that the burglary “made me feel emotional, unsafe in my own home and devastated. I’ve been a shaking mess. Someone has been in my house and I feel unsafe.” The victim of the May 24 burglary said they had been left feeling “extremely upset and physically sick” and they “won’t feel safe” in their home anymore.
Jennison has a long rap sheet of previous convictions, starting with four burglaries in 2020 when he was just 15. He had most recently served an eight-month prison sentence, handed to him in September 2025, for aggravated vehicle taking.
Prosecutor Stephen Welch said the offences “involved use of tools” and there “must be at least two working together, possibly more”. All offences occurred when the occupants were on the premises and, in one burglary “there was a confrontation, albeit not at close range”. The cars being targeted by Jennison were all of high value, Mr Welch added.
Ayman Khokhar, defending, said the recent birth of Jennison’s baby daughter gives him an “incentive to stay out of trouble”. “There has been a material change in personal circumstances,” Mr Khokhar said. “His partner has just given birth to their daughter. She has been a positive influence upon Mr Jennison.”
Jennison pleaded guilty to five charges at a hearing on June 5 this year. On Monday, Recorder Taryn Turner handed him two separate three year prison sentences for two counts of burglary, 13 months for one count of theft, and six months for another count of theft. She gave him three months in prison for a count of criminal damage. All sentences are to run concurrently.
Recorder Turner told Jennison: “The facts reveal a determined and organised course of criminal conduct. These offences were committed during the night in the small hours when householders were present and asleep in their homes. Domestic burglary is always a serious offence. It involves a violation of the security and privacy to which every citizen is entitled within their own home.”
She said the evidence shows a “significant degree of planning and organisation” and that the offences “were not opportunistic”. “They involved the use of tools, the targeting of homes during the hours of darkness and the participation of more than one offender. The geographical spread of the offending demonstrates that vehicles were used to transport offenders between locations. The use of gloves and balaclavas points to a concerted effort to avoid detection. The impact on the victims has been profound.
“For a man of 21, your record is an extremely poor one.”
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