A drunken burglar has been jailed after he smashed his way into a house and then fell asleep on a sofa after leaving a trail of blood inside.
Jimi Aldington had mixed alcohol with prescribed medicines before he broke a window of a house in Paignton, Devon and stole drugs from a bedside cabinet.
He cut his hand on the way in and left a trail of blood which went upstairs to the bedroom and then back to the sofa where police found him asleep.
Officers climbed through the window he had broken before waking and arresting him, Exeter Crown Court was told.
Aldington, 22, of Paignton, admitted burglary and was jailed for 18 months by Judge Peter Johnson at Exeter Crown Court.
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The judge told him:"The lady you burgled already suffered from PTSD.
"No doubt she was shocked because there was substantial blood staining, some of which caused her enormous grief because it was on irreplaceable and extremely personal items."
Brian Fitzherbert, prosecuting, said Aldington entered the house at 7pm on April 5 by smashing a ground floor window when the occupier was not at home.
Police were called to the scene and climbed through the same window before finding him drunk on the sofa in the living room, bleeding from cuts to his hands.
The blood trail showed he had gone upstairs and stolen prescription medication from a bedside cabinet but then gone back to the sofa.
The owner made a victim impact statement saying she was very upset and had to throw away many blood-stained items, including the order of service from the funeral of her grandson, which was irreplaceable.
Paul Dentith, defending, said Aldington had been doing so well addressing mental health and substance abuse problems that he felt it was safe for him to drink.
He said:"He could not have been more wrong. The next thing he knew he found himself sitting on the sofa at the house of somebody he knows."
