A MAN has been jailed after committing two burglaries on the same night.

Blackburn magistrates heard in the first, Ryan Williams and another man used a concrete block to smash a window at the Park View pub before stealing spirits and charity boxes.

Williams, 21, of HM Prison, Hindley, pleaded guilty to burglary at the Burnley pub and burglary at Bargain Mobiles. He was jailed for nine months and ordered to pay £187 victim surcharge on release.

Bilal Saeed, prosecuting, said CCTV showed Williams and another man approach the Park View at 12.40am and look in through the window. They disappeared up the side of the pub and then returned with a concrete block which was used to smash a window.

"They went in and took charity boxes and a quantity of spirits and tried to take a TV off the wall," said Mr Saeed.

The owner of Bargain Mobiles found his shop had been ransacked when he went to open up in the morning. A window had been smashed to gain entry and an electric scooter and around 50 mobile phones stolen.

"The owner estimates the value at between four and five thousand pounds," said Mr Saeed.

Gareth Price, defending, said his client, who had been recalled on prison licence, recognised the only possible sentence was one of immediate custody.

"He has been in and out of prison since he was 19 years of age and doesn't know how to break the cycle," said Mr Price. "At the moment he feels safer in the prison environment because it brings some stability to his life. For someone of that age that is a sad indictment of the situation he finds himself in."