A16-year-old burglar wrote a letter to his victims to shamelessly rub salt into their wounds. Instead of apologising for stealing valuables from a family home, the teenager told the owners ‘to be honest I’m not bothered or sorry about the fact that I burgled your house.’ He arrogantly said the raid was their own fault and went on to tell them off for the ‘dumb mistakes’ they made in making their property a target for thieves such as him. The habitual offender, who has not been identified, was put on an Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP) as punishment for his latest crime. Described as the ‘most rigorous’ form of non-custodial sentence available for young offenders, writing letters to victims is part of the programme aimed at making them change their ways. In the case of this particular teenager it clearly didn’t work. The letter was stopped by the authorities before it reached the victims and released as part of an anti-burglary campaign. Written in scrawled handwriting and littered with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, the teenager addressed the letter ‘Dear Victim.’ He wrote: ‘I don’t no why I am writing a letter to you! I have been forced to write this letter by ISSP. To be honest I’m not bothered or sorry about the fact that I burgled your house. ‘Basicly it was your own fault anyways. I’m going to run you through the dumb mistakes you made. ‘Firstly you didn’t draw your curtains which most people now to do before they go to sleep. 'Secondly your dumb you live in Stainburns a high risk burglary area and your thick enough to leave your downstairs kitchen window open. I wouldnt do that in a million years. But anyways I don’t feel sorry for you and Im not going to show any sympath or remores.’ The burglar stole a computer games console, camera, camcorder, two televisions and two speakers in the raid on the home in Moortown, Leeds.