A BURGLAR who stole a Jaguar car and three ornamental guns during a house raid was in court yesterday.
Gas engineer Scott McGlen took the keys to the car, a rifle, two guns, a bracelet and a bag containing £600 from a house in Blue House Road, Washington, Wearside, in August.
Newcastle Crown Court heard that he targeted a property in Washington Village a month later, from which he took a keyboard, five cameras, a tape player and money.
He was captured after police traced some of the stolen items to a second-hand store in Sunderland. The Jaguar was found abandoned.
The court heard how McGlen, 28, had "hit rock bottom" and was addicted to heroin at the time of the raids.
Glen Gatland, in mitigation, said that since the offences, McGlen had turned his life around.
McGlen, of Blue House Lane, Concord, admitted two charges of burglary and one of taking a vehicle without the owner's consent. He asked for two burglary charges to be taken into account.
He was sentenced to a 100-hour community punishment order and a 12-month community rehabilitation order.
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