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Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:23 PM on 10th January 2012
A teenager whose mother was threatened with eviction from her council home when he was caught looting during the London riots last August was today jailed for 11 months.
Committed Christian Daniel Sartain-Clarke, 18, broke into a Currys store in Clapham Junction, London, on August 8 last year as chaos took hold in the capital.
He was discovered by police in the shop’s downstairs stockroom two hours after it was broken into by others.
Evicted? Daniel Sartain-Clarke, pictured with his girlfriend, admitted burglary in court today but denied an allegation of assault with intent to resist arrest
Daniel admitted burglary and because of his actions his mother Maite De La Calva was threatened with eviction from the home she shares with her son and eight-year-old daughter.
Today, as Wandsworth Council said it would interview Ms De La Calva about why she should be allowed to remain in the property, her son, who suffers from depression, was jailed at Inner London Crown Court.
In October last year Daniel pleaded guilty
to raiding the Currys at a trial at Inner London Crown court.
Interview: Maite De La Calva, Daniel’s mother, will be pressed as to why she should be allowed to stay at her Wandsworth flat
But he denied a charge of assault with intent to resist arrest alongside two other defendants, Simon and Timothy Rodney.
Sartain Clarke’s case hit the headlines after his mother Maite de la Calva was told by Wandsworth Council the family would be turfed out of their £225,000 taxpayer-subsidised home if he is convicted.
Ms de la Calva is believed to have been the first council tenant in the country to be served with such a notice.
Eviction: Kennworth House, Battersea where Daniel’s family reside
Under
housing rules Mrs de la Calva and her family can be forced from their
two-bedroom flat in Battersea, if anyone living there is involved in
crime.
The volunteer
charity worker has previously slammed the council’s moves though she
described the riots as ‘madness and savagery’.
She said the news had left her ‘very upset’ and she did not know where she and her eight-year-old daughter would go.
Her
son has now moved to a bail address in Bath, who was arrested along
with his 18-year-old girlfriend Jo-Neil Starkie after more than 100
looters went on the rampage.
Starkie was spared jail last month after she admitted looting some mobile phone speakers.
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