Heroin user jailed for burglaries

Heroin user jailed for burglaries

A man from Barrow who admitted a string of burglaries has been jailed for two years and nine months.

Karl Ormandy, 29, from Thwaite Street in Barrow, Cumbria, pleaded guilty to breaking into a house and two commercial properties in the town.

He asked for two further offences of burglary and attempted burglary to be considered.

The judge at Preston Crown Court described his record as "appalling".

The court heard Ormandy was a heroin user with a series of previous convictions, but there had been a gap of almost five years since his last offence.

He had stayed off drugs for a time, but had begun using them again while helping someone else to fight the habit.

Recorder Phillip Grundy told him the court could not consider anything but a custodial sentence.