A resentful teenager burgled the home of his father, who had left the family home when he was a baby, a Court heard today.

Bradford Crown Court was told that Kayne Connolly came home to find his son, 19-year-old Jordan Hardy, climbing out of his kitchen window.

Hardy ran off, with two other men. Mr Connolly discovered that an Xbox, a Play Station3 and 120 computer games, valued at a total of £4,800, along with £125 cash, were missing.

Hardy, of Boyd Avenue, Thornbury, and co-accused Andrew Schofield, 20, of Linfield Drive, Chellow Grange, both pleaded guilty to burglary. The third man was never caught.

Hardy’s barrister, Nicholas Askins, said that burgling your own father’s house might be seen as a mean thing to do, but he told the court Mr Connolly had left the defendant’s mother when Hardy was a “babe in arms” and contact had only resumed a year ago.

Mr Askins said: “The offence occurred because Mr Hardy felt hard done by and wanted to pay his father back for the way he perceived he had treated him. There is evidence this defendant has been left with a lingering feeling of resentment about the absence of his father in his youth.”

Judge James Goss QC told Hardy he thought, out of some sense of ill will towards his father, that he would be an appropriate victim from whom to steal.

Hardy was sentenced to a 12-month Intensive Alternative to Custody order, including supervision, 40 hours of unpaid community work and a requirement to take part in a YMCA-specified activity three times a week.

Stephen Wood, representing Schofield, said he was not the instigator of the offence but misguidedly went along with his friend.

Judge Goss sentenced him to six months’ detention, suspended for 12 months, supervision by the probation service and attendance on a Thinking Skills programme.