A TEENAGER who walked free last year after burgling his grandparents' Cotswolds home was jailed for three years today - after returning to raid the house again.

Sean Collings, 19, was told by Judge Martin Picton: "You committed despicably mean offences on your grandparents.

"I don't know how you live with yourself doing what you did. You are clearly a deeply selfish person and you put your own needs and desires before others. The hurt and the harm you caused as enormous.

"I would like to think you are ashamed of yourself but I suspect you are not. I don't expect you care at all."

Last August Collings, of Pendelton Road, Wiswell, Lancs, was given a suspended sentence after he admitted breaking into Harry and Ruth Robinson’s South Cerney home and stealing £14,000 worth of valuables.

But today the court was told that he carried out a new raid on their home on 4th March.

He pleaded guilty to burglary of the house again on Match 4 and theft of DVDs, jewellery and a Wii console and accessories and also admitted breaking into a house at Whalley Bank, Whalley, Clitheroe, Lancs, in January and stealing property including £280 cash.

Derek Ryder, prosecuting, said Collings' grandparents returned home on March 4 to find a door forced open and saw that property had been taken.

Judge Picton commented: "His grandmother has written yet another victim personal statement setting out the degree of trauma and upset his grossly selfish behaviour has caused her and the harm it has done to the whole family.

"She is even thinking of moving. It is a desperate step to think of taking but that is how it has affected her."

Steve Young, defending, conceded that the offences made Collings a 'three strike burglar' liable to a minimum sentence of three years.

When Collings was given the suspended sentence last summer Recorder Paul Garlick QC avoided jailing Collings as he had moved in with his supportive father in Lancashire and had found a job.