Teen burglars escape jail

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Two Rotorua teenagers have been sentenced to community work for their role in a burglary where they celebrated their haul by dressing up in stolen furs and drinking stolen alcohol.

Shannon Rogers and Zoe Paulette Wrigley, both 19, appeared for sentencing before Judge Phillip Cooper in the Rotorua District Court yesterday after previously pleading guilty to burglary.

The charge relates to a burglary at a home on Amokura St on October 9. Police found the pair at Rotorua Lakefront divvying up their burglary booty dressed in the furs and drinking alcohol.

Judge Cooper noted that neither of the pair had previous convictions for dishonesty and that alcohol had played a significant part in Rogers' offending.

He sentenced them each to serve 200 hours' community work followed by nine months' supervision.