A DRUG addict who stole his grandparents' life-savings was jailed yesterday after he committed ten burglaries to feed his habit.
Teesside Crown Court heard that Nathan Jones, 24, was addicted to crack cocaine.
He knew that his grandparents had a hidden safe at their home in east Cleveland, so he burgled the house and stole their life savings of more than £6,000.
Katharine Dunne, prosecuting, said police found his fingerprints at the house and he was arrested three weeks later, but the money was not recovered.
Jones admitted a total of ten burglaries in Saltburn, Redcar and Middlesbrough, including one in which a woman was asleep in a property.
Richard Bennett, in mitigation, said Jones was free of drugs. He said: "He realises how low he stooped in stealing his grandparents' life savings."
Jones formerly of Northampton House, in Grangetown, was jailed for three years.
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