BURGLARS stole a woman's jewellery and car while she was in bed asleep, a court heard yesterday.
The woman discovered that her home in Barron Street, Darlington, had been burgled when she woke up and she could not find her house keys or car keys.
She then realised that her Nissan Micra, worth £4,200, had been taken along with £1,500 worth of jewellery and power tools worth an estimated £400.
Nigel Wray, prosecuting, said police recovered the car and the power tools and found fingerprints which identified one of the burglars.
Traces of heroin addict Lee Fox's DNA was also found on a Fanta bottle, Teesside Crown Court was told.
Dan Cordey, defending, said that Fox, 30, was winning the fight against heroin addiction while remanded in prison. He planned to move to Scotland with his partner and their two children.
Fox, of Greenbank Road, Darlington, was jailed for two years after he admitted burglary and taking a vehicle without consent on May 30. He had six previous convictions for house burglaries.
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