A DRUG addict who requested a custodial sentence at the beginning of the month came back and asked for more because the first sentence had not been long enough for him to get clean of heroin.

And Blackburn magistrates obliged by sentencing Ronald McCool to four months for an attempted burglary at Threshers in Longridge.

The court heard that the Scotsman had watched Braveheart on TV on Sunday night before he put a rock on his shoulder, carried it into town and used it to batter at the shop door.

McCool, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to the offence which was discovered when the duty manager responded to the alarm.

But police had no idea who was responsible until McCool walked into the police station the following day and confessed.

Michael Blacklidge, defending, said that at the end of March McCool had broken into a car and then presented himself at the police station and told them what he had done.