A BURGLAR has been handed a prison sentence of almost a year at Barnsley Magistrates' Court.

Steven Law, of Hatherley Road, Swinton, admitted two charges of burglary at court on October 22.

The 32-year-old was arrested by South Yorkshire Police and charged on October 8.

The charges related to the theft of a motorcycle from an industrial unit in Wombwell Lane, Stairfoot, on August 11, and the theft of power tools from a shed in Bank End Close, Bolton-on-Dearne, on July 26.

Law was handed 20 weeks’ imprisonment for each of the burglary charges and has also had a previous suspended sentence of 10 weeks reactivated, giving a total prison sentence of 50 weeks.