Former workmate's home burgled by armed knife-wielding addict

Cian O'Shea (26), who admitted aggravated burglary, stole a Playstation and a £1,000 laptop during the burglary at Laughton Road in Dinnington last June.

Mr Neil Coxon, prosecuting, told Sheffield Crown Court the householder had been out for an hour and a half and had returned to find the £200 games console and the computer missing.

A window had been broken and a blue knife left at the scene, he said.

“The complainant also realised there was blood on the window,” said Mr Coxon.

The defendant was arrested after his DNA was found at the scene but

initially denied being involved.

“He admitted he knew the complainant as he had worked with him,” said the prosecutor.

“In September, in a second interview, he fully admitted [the offence] and he said he was a drug addict.

“He had broken the window with a brick and stolen the laptop and the PS.”

In a victim personal statement read out in court last Friday, the complainant said he was “really mad” about the incident.

He said the laptop had been very important to him because of “personal photographs”.

The victim said: “I try and keep the flat as clean as I can. I’m upset that somebody can just break in.”

Judge Rachael Harrison jailed O’Shea, of Lytton Grove, Birmingham, for 26 months.