A PAIR of Brierley Hill burglars have been given suspended jail sentences after being caught redhanded during a raid.

Fabeian Sloly, aged 21 and 20-year-old Kya Loague, both of Lower Derry Street, Brierley Hill, were caught by a Bromsgrove householder when he got back to his house in Old Birmingham Road during daytime on October 24 last year.

At Worcester Crown Court, Sloly and Loague, along with a third defendant from Birmingham, were told by Judge Christopher Plunkett if they had tried threats or violence to get out of the situation they could have been jailed for years.

The judge added it was to their credit that they just waited for the police to arrive. Nothing was taken and there was no damage to the house.

Sloly was also found guilty of another burglary in Wynall Lane South, Wollescote, in which two TVs and a computer were among the items stolen in a night time raid.

Sloly was given a 12 month sentence suspended for two years with an 18 month supervision order and 120 hours of unpaid work.

Loague was given a six month sentence suspended for two years with a supervision order for 18 months and 120 hours of community work.

The judge said he hoped he hoped the defendants had reflected on what it must have been like for the householder to come back and find three people he didn't know in his home.