A Greenfields man who committed a burglary on a neighbour’s home 12 years ago has been fined after police matched his DNA with blood found at the scene.
Russell Frank Scanlin, 36, pleaded guilty to the home burglary and stealing when he appeared in the Mandurah Magistrates Court on Tuesday, via video link from Hakea prison.
Police prosecutor Tamara Read told the court Scanlin smashed a window of the Terry Crescent home on October 12, 2006, and stole a television, PlayStation 2 and a money tin with $1000 inside.
The father-of-four was sentenced to 12-months prison on October 26, 2018 for a separate matter and made eligible for parole on February 6, 2019.
After Scanlin’s sentence, police took his DNA and matched it to blood found at the 2006 crime scene.
Scanlin’s lawyer Oliver Paxman told the court his client would have been 23 years old at the time and did not recall committing the burglary.
Mr Paxman said Scanlin had not been in trouble with the law prior to his sentence this year and the offending was “out of character”.
Paxman was fined $1000 and $205.30 costs.