POLICE acting on reports of a break-in at a Heap Bridge caravan compound found a man hiding in a toilet, a court was told.

Jack Dawson, aged 22, appeared before a combined Rochdale and Bury Magistrates Courts' session.

He admitted being at Emm-Bee Caravans in Heywood, for unlawful purposes, interfering with a motor vehicle trailer and two camper vans and going equipped with a screwdriver.

The offences were committed while Dawson, of Plover Drive, Bury, was on warrant for other offences.

He admitted being in breach of a community order imposed at Rochdale for theft and attempted theft.

He was jailed for six months.