A BURGLAR who was caught after getting a speeding ticket in the stolen car he was driving has been jailed for nearly three years.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Shane Frayne, 26, targeted a property on Mary Street, off Bowling Back Lane, on June 22 last year.

After breaking in, Frayne stole a mobile phone, camera, a tablet, computer controllers, and store cards.

He also took a set of car keys for the householder’s Nissan Qashqai, which then activated a speed camera near to the address later that day.

Prosecutor Katy Rafter told the court that five days later, the car’s owner received a speeding ticket which included a picture of the burglar driving the car, an image later identified as Frayne.

The court also heard that on September 25, Frayne saw his ex-girlfriend on the street having broken up with her following a five-year relationship just two days earlier.

Miss Rafter said the defendant grabbed his former partner by the arm before throwing her to the floor and then kicking her in the head.

The woman suffered minor injuries, and when she was sitting at home later that night watching television with her mother, Frayne came to the house and kicked the kitchen door in.

The pair got up to see the defendant in the garden, who stared at them before running away.

Ashok Khullar, defending, said his client had been making “good progress” since his release from a prison sentence in 2011, but had then relapsed into drug use.

Frayne, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to offences of burglary, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, controlling or coercive behaviour, criminal damage, and driving without a licence or insurance.

Sentencing him to 1,058 days in prison and imposing a restraining order, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, said Frayne’s previous convictions made him a “third-strike” burglar.

On the domestic violence conviction, he said Frayne had shown “immature and cowardly behaviour” towards his former partner, telling him: “Do your time and don’t bother this lady.”