Two prolific young burglars who were filmed on a mobile phone torching a stolen car have been locked up for their part in a spate of offences across the district.

Bradford Crown Cort heard yesterday that 22-year-old Anthony Niland suffered burns to his face when he was temporarily engulfed in flames as the £15,000 Volkswagen Golf was set alight. The car was then left to roll down a field in the Barkerend Road area of the city.

The footage came to light after Niland's arrest in September last year, and prosecutor Timothy Capstick said his accomplice, Abbas Khan, 19, was also identified as being involved in the arson attack on the car.

The Golf, which had been taken during a night-time burglary at an occupied house, ended up hitting a fence, and the emergency services were called by a householder who saw the vehicle on fire.

Today Niland, of Newark Street, East Bowling, is starting a four-year prison sentence for offences of conspiracy to burgle and arson.

The court heard that he had admitted involvement in seven house break-ins, but went on to accept responsiblity for nearly 50 other offences under the police's "clean slate" initiative.

The schedule of further matters included 33 burglaries of non-dwellings and 13 offences of theft from cars or taking vehicles without consent.

Mr Capstick said Niland was involved in stealing almost £80,000 worth of property, and the damage bill was said to be in excess of £14,000.

Khan, of Hanover Square, Manningham, was sent to a young offenders' institution for a total of five years after he pleaded guilty to a series of offences including arson, burglary, dangerous driving, supplying heroin and crack cocaine and handling stolen goods.

He asked Judge Peter Benson to take into consideration 67 other matters, which included 50 offences of burglary or attempted burglary.

His offending was said to have involved stolen property worth almost £70,000, with more than £12,000 worth of damage being caused.

Khan was also banned from driving for three years and must take an extended test before lawfully driving on the roads again.

Four other young men, Thomas Stainsby, 18, of Hendford Drive, Barkerend, Razwan Zeb, 20, of Gladstone Street, Barkerend, 19-year-old Arfan Sheraz, of Killinghall Road, Laisterdyke, and 19-year-old Amir Khan, of Cemetery Road, Bradford, were sentenced alongside the duo yesterday in the final chapter of Operation Sloyd.

Judge Benson described the men as "a loose mob of burglars" who were running wild burgling other people's homes, and Mr Capstick outlined details of a series of burglaries or attempted break-ins at properties in Bradford, Shipley, Pudsey, Calverley and Shelf.

Amir Khan, who had two previous convictions for robbery, was locked up for a total of 36 months after he admitted mugging a 14-year-old schoolboy and stealing his mobile phone together with offences including burglary, attempted burglary and handling.

Zeb, who admitted offences of burglary, attempted burglary and handling stolen goods, will serve 27 months in a young offenders institution while Stainsby, who was involved in two burglaries and one attempted burglary, was sent to a young offenders institution for 21 months.

Sheraz, who had been on bail for burglary, attempted burglary and handling back in March last year, was given a 12-month custodial sentence suspended for two years.

But Judge Benson ordered him to do 80 hours' unpaid work for the community.