A BURGLAR who has been breaking into homes for 20 years has been locked up again on his birthday.

Career criminal Jason Erskine, 46, has committed 154 previous offences including five domestic burglaries and an attempted burglary since 1996.

On July 6 he broke into his tenth home, a property in Burnley Road, Blackburn, while the family were out for the day, a Preston Crown Court heard.

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They returned home to find a rear window broken and Erskine’s blood on the pane.

Inside they discovered the house had been ransacked and a computer, a tablet, bags of clothes and a watch, had been stolen.

The blood on the window was taken for analysis and a full profile matched Erskine’s DNA.

Erskine, of Swift Close, Blackburn pleaded guilty to burglary.

Judge Christopher Cornwall, sentencing Erskine to 32 months behind bars, said: “If you don’t want your 50s to be spent behind bars you know what you must do about it.”