A crack addict who went on a robbing spree to pay for drugs days after returning from a nine-year stay in the US will face a social inquiry report next month.

Garry Raynor, of Spring Benny Road, Sandys, told the court: "My step father turned me on to cocaine in Brooklyn when I was 16-years-old.

"I've smoked crack with my dad and I have been on drugs since I was nine-years-old - drugs are the family type business.'' Raynor, 30, had plead guilty to taking $1,537 worth of drink from Spring Garden restaurant in Washington Lane, Pembroke, on October 22 -- two days after coming back from America.

Two days later Raynor visited a friend and stole his Nokia cellphone worth $250 when the friend went into another room to find money to give him.

Later that night a drunken and drugged Raynor headbutted the window of the Shoe Centre in Court Street which left a pool of blood.

He stole four boxes of shoes which he pushed away in a shopping cart and sold immediately for drugs along with the phone.

When police arrested him he was bleeding profusely from the headwound. He broke into Somerset Cricket Club on November 14 and took liquor and a VCR worth a total of $345 and again on November 18 when he took beer, cigarettes and cash from machines totalling $588. Raynor said he was now in a Salvation Army programme to tackle his addiction.

He pleaded: "I have been in and out of jail all my life. This is the first time I have been able to get my life straight.'' He said the need for cash for drugs had led to his crime spree.

Crown Counsel Veronica Daley called for Raynor to be jailed after pointing out that he had been sentenced in 1990 for stealing jewellery worth $54,000 from Trimingham's -- although Raynor later said his haul had only been worth $14,000.

She said: "The Crown urges a custodial sentence with the direction that he gets counselling for his drug habit while in custody.

"He did some very serious offences and has stolen from someone's house.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis ordered a social inquiry report.

He said he bore in mind what the Crown said about retribution. But he added: "We should also think about rehabilitation.

"If it's possible to rehabilitate him and get him off drugs it seems to me in the best interests including our own... otherwise he will be out terrorising us again.'' Raynor was bailed for $800 with like surety pending his social inquiry report on January 26.