A DRUG addict who stole from his parents and burgled his friends' home while they were on holiday has been jailed.

Robert Ian Keeble, 21, was sentenced to 21 months in prison after he pleaded guilty at York Crown Court to a series of thefts.

Chris Smith, prosecuting, said Keeble was convicted by Selby magistrates of burglary and obtaining property by deception.

The court heard how he had broken into a friends' home in Barlby Road, Selby, in February while the couple were on holiday.

He took a camcorder, a watch and piles of CDs and DVDs worth £375. The family had later spotted some of the items in Benson's Bargain Centre, in New Street, Selby.

Keeble, who at the time was living in Greenfield Drive, Brayton, was handed a 12-month suspended sentence for the offences.

But the court heard that Keeble was soon caught stealing again, when on July 20 he took a £400 camera, £30 and some DVDs from his father, Ian Keeble.

Mr Smith said: "He lived with his parents until July 17, unhappily for a good number of years.

"They had to lock their own bedroom, keeping valuable items in there."

On the same day, he had stolen a bottle of tanning solution from the Boots store, in Selby. Two days earlier he was stopped by police who found a carrier bag he had was filled with prescription drugs and a lock knife.

Glenn Parsons, mitigating, told the court how Keeble had experimented with drugs from the age of 12 and was now an addict.

He said: "He is remorseful and regrets finding himself back before the court. He knows he has let himself and his family, who have tried their hardest to stand by him, badly down.

"He knows that the only way forward for him is to rid himself of his addiction."

Judge Paul Hoffman jailed him for a year in prison for the earlier offences, three months for the theft from Boots, and a year for the thefts from his family.

As Keeble was led out of court, Judge Hoffman told his parents sitting in the public gallery: "I am sorry for your plight, that's all I can say and I mean it."