A BURGLAR who smashed his way into a house in Lye while on drugs has been jailed for 39 months.

The raider, 21-year-old Martin Rollason, told cops he was so high at the time that he could not remember the break-in.

On Thursday May 29, a judge at Wolverhampton Crown Court told Rollason, who was on licence from a custodial sentence at the time of the offence, he had an appalling criminal record.

Recorder Richard Glancy QC said: "You say you feel shame when you realise what you have done - and so you should.

"The time has come in your criminal career for a significant sentence to make you learn this has got to stop."

Rollason of New England, Halesowen, admitted burgling the house in Claycroft Place, he also asked for two other similar offences, also committed in the Stourbridge area, to be taken into consideration.

Ben Mills, defending, told the court Rollason knew he was "tearing his young life into shreds" because he could not control his thinking when he was on crack cocaine and heroin.

He told the court Rollason was only able to understand what he had done when he was drug free and he then felt "ashamed" of his actions.

Mr Mills said: "When he is on drugs his moral barometer is blown apart and he will do anything to get the money to buy more drugs."

Kanwal Juss, prosecuting, said Rollason was caught after leaving behind blood stains during the Lye raid and police matched them up with his DNA.

Mr Mills said Rollason, who committed all his crimes in the Halesowen and Stourbridge area, was "desperate" to resolve his drug habit.