A PETRIFIED schoolboy locked himself in a bathroom to make a desperate whispered 999 call as Coventry burglars ransacked his parents’ luxury home.
A court heard how the terrified youngster was revising for his GCSEs when three men from Coventry burst in to his Warwickshire home.
Terrified that they would find him, the 16-year-old even contemplated jumping from the first-floor window as the raiders made their way upstairs.
But the police arrived and it was the three burglars who ended up escaping through an upstairs window of the house in the village of Lowsonford, near Hatton, and making off.
And at the crown court in Leamington one of the gang, Peter Windle, 22, of James Galloway Close, Ernesford Grange, Coventry, was jailed for five years.
He had denied burgling the house in Lowsonford and burgling another house on the same day, but the jury found him guilty by unanimous verdicts.
Prosecutor Andrew Wallace said that in May last year Windle broke into a house in Balsall Common, and stole handbags, a games console, a camera and other property.
The same day a 16-year-old boy was at home alone at his parents’ large house in Lowsonford, studying for his GCSEs.
The boy was in his bedroom when he heard a car pull up outside the house, and when he looked out of his window he saw three men looking around.
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