A burglary victim was left so traumatised by the intrusion she bleached everything in her home then moved out.
Robyn Gilchrist returned to find the home she shares with her two children had been ransacked.
As well as stealing her children's Playstation 4 and an Amazon Alexa, Christopher Futers, with the help of lookout James Lawson, also stole her sense of security in the raid in Walker, Newcastle, last November.
Sentencing the pair at Newcastle Crown Court, Recorder Andrew Haslam QC told them: "Some victims of burglaries never get over the experience of having their homes invaded by strangers.
"Miss Gilchrist felt, for understandable reasons, compelled to move house, to move from her home she had made with her two children and, as a result, she fell into debt with relatives who had to help her out with the house move.
"She felt unsafe in her own home, she found it difficult sleeping in her own home.
"Because she felt the presence of strangers in it, she bleached the entire contents of it."
Futers, also known as Cross, who pleaded guilty to the burglary on Birds Nest Road, Walker, along with Lawson, also admitted three other offences - assaulting an emergency worker and two non-dwelling burglaries.
Just hours after being given a suspended prison sentence for assaulting a nurse in July last year, he spat at a police inspector who was trying to offer him assistance.
And in October, he carried out two shed burglaries in one night, including against one victim who he tricked into helping him and broke into his shed when his back was turned.
Futers, 32, who has 117 previous convictions and Lawson, 40, who has 119 previous convictions, including around ten for burglary, both of Wilfred Street, Byker, were each jailed for 34 months.
Jonathan Pigford, for Futers, said: "He turned to drink at an early age and was excluded from school at 14.
"He tells me he has found faith in the prison setting and wants to continue that when he is released."
Lee Fish, for Lawson, said of the home burglary: "This is a mean offence. He is in a cycle of offending."
