A PENSIONER was left terrified after an intruder smashed a window and broke into her bedroom, a court heard.
The elderly woman was woken up when Glen Lamb, 20, smashed the window in her daughter's home in Southwick, Sunderland.
Jenny Gair, 70, got out of her downstairs bed and tried to make for the front door after hearing the glass break, but Lamb grabbed her by the arm and began to drag her back into the room. Police found blood on the broken window and eventually matched it to Lamb's DNA.
Yesterday, he was sent to a young offenders' institution for four months by Newcastle Crown Court after admitting affray and damaging property.
Tim Parkin, mitigating, said that Lamb was basically a thoroughly nice young man.
He said: "He does bitterly regret the way he went about what he did and is horrified that he caused the fear and obvious terror that must have been caused to someone of that lady's age."
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