A CONVICTED burglar was so drugged up when he carried out yet another break-in, that he left behind his girlfriend's bank card.

Anthony Baxter, aged 26, of High Street, Atherton, was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday for 33 months.

The court heard that police traced his girlfriend and discovered she lived across the road from the burglary victim.

When they called at her house, they found Baxter. He was bleeding from a fresh cut to his hand and his blood was found to match that found on a wad of tissues found at the rear of the burgled premises, said Andrew Ford, prosecuting.

Baxter had been taking Valium all day at the time and was on licence from a four year sentence for burgling six houses. Jailing him, Judge John Phipps said, "It is a matter of concern that your sub-conscious appears to be geared towards burglary."

Baxter pleaded guilty to breaking into the house in High Street on February 23 last year.