A Bolton man who went on a crime spree in a Batman dressing gown where he entered multiple homes to steal and attacked police officers has been jailed.

Ryan Haywood carried out the string of offences after he had discharged himself from medical care.

Bolton Crown Court heard he took a drug overdose on Wednesday, April 27 this year and was taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital.

Clothing was taken to him including the dressing gown, but later that day he discharged himself.

With family and friends looking for him, he would go on to commit a series of crimes in Farnworth.

At around 9pm he rang the bell of a property on Plodder Lane to find out if it was locked but did not gain access.

Five minutes later he moved onto another property at the same street where he gained entry and stole a pair of trainers.

A short time later he went to a garden on Watson Road and stole a pedal cycle.

He then moved into a property on the same street and stole a bottle of wine.

Haywood then got into a home on Highfield Road and stole an Xbox.

The Bolton News:

Haywood was found in Highfield Road, Farnworth, in a Batman costume

Bob Elias, prosecuting, revealed what happened when police were called to the scene.

He said: “A description was passed to officers describing a man wearing a Batman dressing gown.

“PCs went to the scene and found the defendant on the drive on Highfield Road.

“When they tried to handcuff him he resisted and pulled away, there was a struggle.

“In the course of that struggle he bit two officers.”

He added that when he was finally detained he was found to have a knife on him and he was also found to have tried to gain access to two vehicles.

Haywood, 29, appeared in court to be sentenced after admitting two counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker, three counts of burglary with theft, two counts of vehicle interference, theft and possession of a knife in a public place.

The court heard he had been made the subject of a drug treatment order from the court last year and given another chance after not complying.

Rebecca Filetti, defending, asked for him to be kept out of prison.

She said: “Custody will not provide rehabilitation.

“We are testing the patients of the courts.

“In the long term if he can manage to stay off drugs is isn’t somebody who will come before the courts.”

The Honorary Recorder of Bolton, Judge Martin Walsh said: “I am satisfied that the only sentence that can be imposed in view of your failure to complete in the past is an immediate sentence of custody.”

He jailed Haywood, from Prospect Avenue, Farnworth, for a period of 18 months.