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He's got a string of previous convictions as long as your arm. But crime isn’t Nathan Cassidy’s only compulsion.

The serial burglar has an obsession with cleanliness – and that condition has helped keep him out of prison.

The 20-year-old was allowed to walk free from court after he told a judge he would find jail ‘too traumatic’ because of his obsessive compulsive disorder.

Cassidy smashed his way into an elderly couple’s home while they were sleeping and stole a handbag containing £105.

The thief, who has 14 previous convictions for 29 crimes, committed the burglary while on a suspended sentence for robbery and handling stolen goods.

However, he avoided jail by convincing Cambridge Crown Court he would not be able to cope with life behind bars because he is obsessed with cleanliness.

Instead Judge Gareth Hawkesworth handed Cassidy, of Cambridge, a 12-month sentence in a young offenders’ institution, suspended for two years.

He was also placed under a two-year supervision order and ordered to undergo mental health treatment.

Judge Hawkesworth said: ‘It’s clear to me from the psychological report you have a raft of psychological problems that need addressing.’

Mark McDonald, defending Cassidy, told the court his client was not a normal prisoner because of his problems with OCD.

He said: ‘Because of psychological problems, including obsessive compulsive disorder in relation to cleanliness, custody would have a very traumatic effect on him – more so than it would on the average prisoner.’

Cassidy and two accomplices smashed a window and broke into an elderly couple’s home in Cambridge in the early hours of February 4 this year.

Aslaug Choudhray and her husband Mohibur were woken when they noticed their bedroom door was open.

The court heard Mrs Choudhray discovered her handbag, containing £100 inside a cheque book and an additional £5, was stolen, along with a kitchen knife. Charles Snelling, prosecuting, told the court Mr Choudhray was so shocked by the burglary that he collapsed the following day.

He said: ‘A 70-year-old retired lady was at home with her husband.

‘She was woken up at 4.20am when she noticed her bedroom door was open.

‘She went on to the landing and noticed a knife from the kitchen and an ornamental saw had been removed.’

Both kitchen windows


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Gob wrote:

OCD cleanliness? Roll him in pig shit for a day then.

Were that my nan he would be sucking it directly from the asshole, at gunpoint, until death from some evil toxicity befell him. Bloody liberals

He said: ‘Because of psychological problems, including obsessive compulsive disorder in relation to cleanliness, custody would have a very traumatic effect on him – more so than it would on the average prisoner.’