A DRUG user who carried out a string of burglaries to feed his heroin addiction has been jailed for two years.

Some of the property removed from a Darwen home was recovered from a second hand shop, where Jon Booth had taken it.

A judge told him that a sentence of custody was inevitable when Booth appeared for sentence at Preston Crown Court.

The 30-year-old, of no fixed address, had been committed by magistrates for sentence at the higher court on a charge of burgling a home on Wood Street, Darwen.

He asked for five other offences to be considered, two of them daytime burglaries of homes.

Booth told police he had committed the offences to fund an addiction to heroin.

John Woodward, defending, said Booth was determined to make a fresh start.

He still had a problem with drugs, not so much a physical addiction, as opposed to a mental one.