A WOMAN came home from her Christmas holidays to discover she had been burgled.
Paula Birchall left her Crosby home on the morning of Christmas Day, 2008, to visit her father.
But Liverpool Crown Court heard when she returned on December 27 she discovered her window had been forced and her 32-inch television taken.
David Evans, prosecuting, said a block had even been taken out of the window frame to enable the valuable TV to be removed.
Karl Farmer, 24, was caught after crime scene investigators discovered his finger- print on the inside of the frame at her home on Coney Crescent.
Farmer, of Radburn Road, Thornton, tried to maintain his innocence, but later admitted burglary.
Recorder Nicholas Clarke, QC, jailed Farmer for nine months and said he had no choice but to admit his guilt because of the "overwhelming scientific evidence".
