A RIBBLE Valley teenager has been jailed for three years after burgling his grandparents home for the second time.

Sean Collings, 19, was told by Judge Martin Picton: "You committed despicably mean offences on your grandparents.

"I don't know how you live with yourself doing what you did.

"You are clearly a deeply selfish person and you put your own needs and desires before others.

"I despair of you, behaving the way you did. The hurt and the harm you caused was enormous.

"I would like to think you are ashamed of yourself but I suspect you are not. I don't expect you care at all."

Last August Collings, of Pendelton Road, Wiswell in the Ribble Valley, was given a suspended sentence after he admitted breaking into the home of Harry and Ruth Robinson at South Cerney, nr Cirencester, in the Cotswolds and stealing £14,000 worth of valuables.

But yesterday the court was told that he carried out a new raid on their home on March 4.

He pleaded guilty to burglary and theft of DVDs, jewellery and a Wii console and accessories.

Collings also admitted breaking into a house at Whalley Banks, Blackburn, between January 1-16 this year and stealing property including £280 cash.

Derek Ryder, prosecuting, said Collings' grandparents went out on March 4 to visit relatives and returned to find a door forced open.

"They looked around and saw that property had been taken.

Although the value of goods taken this time was not as great as when their grandson burgled them last year they were very upset that he had raided them again, Mr Ryder said.

Judge Picton said: "His grandmother has written yet another victim personal statement setting out the degree of trauma and upset his grossly selfish behaviour has caused her and the harm it has done to the whole family.

"She is even thinking of moving. It is a desperate step to think of taking but that is how it has affected her."

Steve Young, defending, conceded that the offences made Collings a 'three-strike burglar' liable to a minimum sentence of three years.