A teenage housebreaker was warned he faced longer and longer spells behind bars by a judge who locked him up for 876 days.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, told Aneeze Williamson: “You might get to 30 or 40 and look back and realise that you have just chucked your life away.”

Williamson, 19, who appeared in the dock at Bradford Crown Court yesterday in handcuffs, pleaded guilty to burgling a house in Poplar Road, Shipley, on January 18.

His 17-year-old co-accused, also in handcuffs, was sentenced to three years’ detention and training for three house burglaries.

The teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, admitted the same break-in as Williamson.

He was on bail when he committed that offence for two burglaries on October 18, in Cliffe Lane, Baildon, and Heaton Grove, Manningham, Bradford.

Williamson, of West Royd Drive, Windhill, Shipley, was recalled on licence after being locked up for 20 months’ in April last year for attempted house burglary, also in Poplar Road.

At the age of 11, he was the youngest person in Bradford to be given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order.

Prosecutor John Topham said Williamson and the 17-year-old were part of a team that smashed a door panel and took a laptop computer and jewellery.

He was a “three-strikes” housebreaker, with a string of previous convictions for a variety of offences.

After he was sentenced Williamson was brought back into court after shouting on the stairs down to the cells.

Judge Thomas ordered him to apologise. Williamson, who said he was calling out to his co-accused and not the judge, did so.

Earlier, Judge Thomas told him he would get longer and longer sentences if he did not mend his ways.

The court heard that the 17-year-old’s footprint was found on a door he kicked in at the house in Cliffe Lane. A camera was stolen from the property.

The teenager and his accomplices went on to burgle the house in Manningham later the same day. It was ransacked and the haul included a laptop computer, camera and jewellery.

He was tracked by a police dog and apprehended.