Lorry driver Michael Wheddon could go to prison after he used windows stolen from a building site when he built an extension to his home.

A jury found the 26-year-old guilty yesterday of five counts of handling stolen goods after a three-day trial at Oxford Crown Court.

Judge David Morton Jack adjourned sentence for four weeks, saying: "I don't want to threaten you but I have to warn you all options to sentence have to remain open.

"Handling goods stolen from building sites is very much an offence which the courts have always sought to deter by prison sentences so that's a possibility I'm afraid."

Wheddon was arrested after police found the windows along with thousands of pounds of equipment including patio doors, a plastic oil tank, radiators and a mini JCB digger and its trailer during an early morning raid at his home in Gullicote Lane, Hanwell, near Banbury, last November.

Jane Alt, prosecuting, told the court athe equipment had all been stolen from building sites and company premises in a number of locations in and around Banbury.

Among the stolen items were window and patio doors worth £2,100 which had been prised from newly-built homes on a Beazer Homes estate in the town in August.

Wheddon told the jury he bought the equipment at car boot sales, at knock-down prices from sellers he thought were genuine without realising it was stolen goods.

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