A DRUG addict has been jailed for 15 months for two serious burglaries at homes in Wilsden and Bradford city centre.

Stacey Waller, 40, of Grattan Road, Bradford, was linked to the £7,000 raid on a family home in Wilsden by a scarf with her DNA on it. It was later found at the scene by the victims when they were cleaning up their property, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Waller, who was remanded at HMP New Hall, was caught on CCTV after the break-in using a stolen credit card at a shop and sentenced to a community order. When the scarf was later found, she was charged with the burglary and today she was jailed for nine months.

The court heard that while she was on bail, she went on to commit a second burglary at a flat in Paradise Street in Bradford.

Judge Jonathan Gibson imposed an additional six months in jail after she admitted that offence.

Prosecutor Harry Crowson said that a black Audi had been seen ‘scouting’ the area near the address in Bingley. After the occupants went out for dinner, intruders broke in and stole almost £7,000 worth of property, including watches, jewellery and electrical items.

Although Waller admitted involvement in the burglary, on November 13, 2021, she said she had not gone into the address.

Nine months later, on August 31 last year, she used a bin to climb through an open window into the unoccupied flat in Paradise Street. She contacted teenage drug addict Aiden Wood who helped her to steal two cameras worth almost £5,000.

Wood, 19, who was homeless, was sentenced to nine months in a young offender institution after he admitted his part in the burglary.

Judge Gibson activated a seven-week suspended sentence given to him by the magistrates six days before the offence.

Barrister Lydia Pearce, for Waller, said her client was a drug user who was vulnerable at the time.

Since she had been remanded in custody in October, she had made significant changes and looked healthier.

Miss Pearce said Waller had engaged with the Together Women project and wanted to work with them as a volunteer.

Wood’s barrister, Laura McBride, said he had had a difficult start in life after being in care and he had become addicted to crack cocaine after falling in with an older crowd.

She said he had made positive changes since he had been remanded in custody in Sep-tember.