A serial thief stole £10,000 worth of jewelery and electronics during a 24-hour crime spree.

Shabaz Ali, 41, broke into a house in Dumbreck, Glasgow, on June 16, 2024.

He fled with a woman’s engagement ring, another ring and two expensive laptops.

Ali, of Thornliebank, Renfrewshire, later told police he had sold the two rings to a loan shark.

Ali had previously tried to enter two other properties and opened a locked shed.

He pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to charges of burglary, two counts of attempted burglary and one count of burglary with intent to commit burglary.

Ali also admitted engaging in threatening or abusive behavior and breaching his bail conditions.

The court heard the homeowners arrived at the house to find a broken clothesline on the lawn.

The man also noticed the rear kitchen window and front Victorian glass panel were shattered.

Prosecutor Hazel Kerr said: “On entering the property they found the diamond engagement ring and leather ring boxes, both valued at £4,500, were missing.

“There were other jewels worth £3,000.”

They also discovered that a laptop worth £1,000 and another laptop worth between £1,000 and £1,200 had been stolen from their work.

Ms Kerr said: “The aggregate figure for the items stolen was £10,000.”

Blood was found on the kitchen window ledge and on the door panel, which was later cleaned up by forensics.

Ali’s DNA was linked to the findings and he was later arrested.

Miss Kerr told the court that the engagement ring and another ring were taken from Ramsdens loan sharks after Ali alerted police.

The hearing was told Ali forced open a backyard shed in Pollokshields earlier in the day but took nothing.

He also tried to enter a woman’s property after breaking a window in the same area.

Ali proceeded to break down the front door of a property adjacent to the shed crime.

Ali was released on bail on 24 June on the condition that he not be found on a road in the Shawlands area of ​​the city, which he breached the next day.

When he was caught by police he told officers: “This bloody man is a dead man, he’ll be twenty feet down when I catch him.”

He also told an officer that he had HIV and that he would spit in his “fucking face.”

It was revealed that Ali’s crime dates back to 2001, when he was first convicted of burglary and theft.

Sentencing was deferred by Sheriff Louise Arrol KC pending background reports until next month.

He said: “This is a significant course of conduct that is disgraceful in the context of a shocking criminal record.”

Meanwhile, Ali’s detention continued.

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