A WOMAN watching TV at 4.30pm was shocked to see a man at the living room window.
Blackburn magistrates heard the woman challenged Brendan Thomas Duff who said he had got the wrong address before running away.
When she went out the woman discovered the garage had been broken into and the four padlocks were lying on the floor.
Duff, 27, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to burglary with intent to steal of a building in St Marks Close, Blackburn. He was jailed for 12 weeks and ordered to pay £40 compensation on release.
The court heard Duff was being recalled on prison licence because he had failed to co-operate with the probation service.
Colleen Dickinson-Jones, defending, said Duff had found himself in the all-too-familiar cycle of a short prison sentence followed by homelessness and absence of benefits.
"It is a vicious circle and it is difficult to see a way out," said Mrs Dickinson-Jones.
"He was living rough and had nothing to his name other than the clothes he is standing up in."
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