It was like a script from a Hollywood film.
The balaclava-clad robber by day a devoted father and businessman scales a building in the dark of night, cuts a hole in the roof and disables the security system before lowering himself through the ceiling.
Once inside, the stealthy criminal uses an angle grinder to slice open the locked safe and pockets tens of thousands of dollars before escaping back up through the hole.
It may sound like a movie heist, but this was the sophisticated method prolific cat-burglar Simon Paul Giacomel used to target 15 WA businesses in an 18-month crime spree that spanned from Lancelin to Subiaco and as far east as Toodyay.
The West Australian can reveal Giacomel, 42, has been jailed for more than six years over …
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