A TEENAGER who burgled his girlfriend’s grandmother during funeral commemorations and then sold on keepsakes from the deceased has been jailed for 30 months.

Victim Lorraine Jennings described Ryan Shaw as the “lowest of the low’” after he took three rings, a half-sovereign ring and gold bracelet belonging to her late husband, Burnley Crown Court was told.

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Shaw was the boyfriend of her 15-year-old granddaughter Sarah Griffiths.

When arrested and challenged about the theft, he said: “I would honestly not do that — I have more respect.”

But investigators later tracked down the trinkets to a jewellers in Rawtenstall where Shaw received £525 for the haul — before paying £59 for an “engagement ring” for his girlfriend.

Shaw, 19, of Brierley Street, Bacup, who admitted the theft at Oldham, four further offences of burglary and handling stolen goods, also had a significant impact on a trail of victims during a spree of break-ins, according to prosecutor David Clarke.

Earlier the court heard how 12-year-old Logan Law had been left traumatised after the home of his parents, Cheryl and Tony, in Newchurch Road, Stacksteads, was broken into.

Mr Clarke said that the youngster took two days off sick after Shaw stole his school tablet computer. The pupil thought he would be in trouble, and had been left feeling uneasy when left home alone.

Mother-of-five Jane Roberts, of Brierley Street, told of similar feelings after Shaw broke into her home and stole her iPad.

Shaw, who was known to the family and lived on the same street for a time, later claimed her partner owed him £20.

Shaw also stole money from cash tins which Ian Laird, 74, had been saving for his grandchildren and great-grandchildren at his home in Ashworth Street, Stacksteads.

Mr Laird told police that the break-in had left him feeling anxious, even more so as he knew that Shaw’s mother lived on the next street, said Mr Clarke.

The court heard Shaw also broke into the home of Margaret Carswell, in Helmshore, while she was asleep upstairs.

After the raid she had people staying with her, which reassured her — but when they went she was also left feeling anxious.