A prolific burglar who admitted raiding his sister's house owned up to a further 114 similar offences when he appeared at Bradford Crown Court today.

On New Year's Eve last year police were called to a house in Firth Street, Thornton, Bradford, after neighbours reported a break-in.

Officers found Christopher Broadbent, 25, of Shirley Avenue, Wyke, hiding in the garden of the next-door property.

He later admitted stealing goods valued at about £1,500, including an £800 TV, a £500 games console, designer watch and DVDs from his sister's house when she had been at a party at her mother's home.

Heroin addict Broadbent, a father-of-two, had also been at the party earlier in the day.

Richard Davies, prosecuting, said that in interview, Broadbent claimed he had left the party to have a cigarette, only for drugs associates to approach him, put a gun to his head and demand a £3,000 debt he owed which spurred him to carry out the burglary.

After pleading guilty to a single charge of burglary, Broadbent admitted a further 114 offences, many of which were also said to have taken place in Bradford.

Mr Davies said the offences stretched back to the mid 1990s and began when the defendant was 12 years old.

In mitigation Alan Bridger said: "He was 12 when he started committing offences and 12 when he became addicted to heroin. He has been offending prolifically."

Sentencing Broadbent to two years in jail, the Honorary Recorder of Bradford, Judge Stephen Gullick, said he had to take into account the fact that many of the 114 offences he had admitted had taken place in the mid and late 1990s.