A BURGLAR ransacked a Hull home and then turned himself in to the police.
Ashley Irwin, 21, grinned as he was sent down for two-and-a-half years for burgling a man's home in east Hull, pulling out the contents of all the drawers in the cabinets.
Hours later, he went to a police station to confess and he was arrested.
Hull Crown Court heard Irwin broke into the house in Cyprus Street just 40 minutes after the owner had gone to York for a few days.
Prosecuting, Jhana Jobes said: "The complainant spent a lot of time in York. He checked on the house on June 28 and then, at midnight, he got a phone call from the police.
"When he arrived back from York a few days later, he saw the doors and windows had been smashed and the drawers had been searched.
"A Blackberry mobile had disappeared, as had compact discs.
"The defendant was arrested after he gave himself in."
Irwin also pleaded guilty to attempting to steal a car after his fingerprints were found on a leaflet inside the car of a supply teacher.
The steering mechanism was damaged, causing the car to be written off.
Mrs Jobes said: "It was clear an attempt had been made to take it away. The vehicle was a write-off and the owner got £80 from a scrap merchant for it. The original value of the car was £3,000.
"The owner was a supply teacher and had to turn down two jobs because of this."
Irwin has two previous convictions for burglary, including one he was sentenced to 21 months for last year.
Ms Wendy Foster, defending Irwin, asked for full credit for the early guilty plea.
Sending him to jail, Recorder David Bradshaw said: "You have a bad record, which includes two previous convictions for burglary. This is your third strike. If, when you come out, you commit further burglaries, your sentences will become longer and longer."
He was also ordered to pay £120 costs.
