A MAN who burgled his ex-girlfriend's home has been jailed for 27 months at Worc-ester Crown Court.

Clint Hubble broke into the house they had shared in Walter Nash Road, Kidderminster.

He gained entry off scaffolding through a bathroom window and stole £85 from a coinbox, said Brett Stevenson, prosecuting.

The defendant also broke into vehicles and stole bottles of whisky worth £36 from a supermarket.

Hubble, 27, pleaded guilty to burglary, theft, vehicle interference and failing to surrender to bail.

Mr Stevenson said Hubble, a heroin addict, lived at the raid victim's address but after they split up he went to collect his property.

She was out - so he broke in.

He stole the whisky from Safeway in Kidderminster and grabbed CDs worth £400 from a Peugeot and tools worth £800 from a builder's van.

During a third bid to get into a vehicle, an alarm went off but his DNA was found by police on the car.

Hubble admitted two further thefts from cars. Similar offences and other burglaries were on his record.

Michael Aspinall, defending, said Hubble was doing well on a drug treatment and testing order, imposed for a burglary at a furniture shop.

But he spent three days in police custody wrongly accused of a serious crime for which he was later exonerated.

The ordeal made him turn to his old drug ways and he began offending again to support the habit.

Mr Aspinall said he was apologetic for the break-in at his girlfriend's home.

They had since been reconciled and had a baby son.