A CONVICTED nuisance bike rider has been jailed for 20 months after burgling a child's Christmas presents in breach of a suspended sentence order.

Matthew McDonald, 22, pleaded guilty to stealing the wrapped gifts, along with three television sets, four watches, an iPhone, clothing and a tub containing £300 cash, from a house in Sandfield Road, Thorpe Edge, Bradford, in November last year.

Bradford Crown Court heard today that McDonald, of Rathmell Street, West Bowling, Bradford, committed the offence with an accomplice who was locked up for ten months at an earlier hearing for handling stolen property.

The haul included Christmas toys for the female householder's young daughter, prosecutor Abigail Langford said.

She arrived home after a night out to find the side door open and the lights on.

A phone call led her to a shed next to an empty house where she found her television sets and Christmas presents hidden.

McDonald and his accomplice were caught after police saw them jumping out of a taxi.

McDonald was remanded in custody after failing to answer his court bail.

Miss Langford said the burglary offence put him in breach of a suspended sentence order imposed at Bradford Crown Court in June last year for dangerous driving on an off-road trials bike.

He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, for riding the machine dangerously in Bradford on three separate occasions by doing wheelies, darting in and out of parked vehicles and riding on and off the pavement.

McDonald was ordered to do unpaid work as part of the sentence for the dangerous driving offences.

Miss Langford said he had failed to turn up for appointments and was, therefore, doubly in breach of the suspended sentence order.

McDonald's solicitor advocate, Ashok Khullar, said he had no other convictions.

He had performed 40 of the 200 hours of unpaid work and had been working as a scaffolder and a window cleaner.

McDonald had been extremely upset and distressed by a tragic family bereavement. He had begun to drink too much and got into the wrong company.

He had been sleeping rough at the time he committed the burglary and been held in custody since March 2.

Judge David Hatton QC sentenced him to ten months imprisonment for the burglary. He activated nine months of the suspended sentence order and added another month for the breach of bail offence. All the sentences to run consecutively.