A 44-year-old Sandys man has been jailed for four years for stealing cash and jewellery from a Sound View Road home.

Charles Ratteray, from Middle Road, pleaded guilty to the theft in Magistrates' Court, saying he had stolen the items to support his drug habit.

According to Crown counsel Cindy Clarke, at around 12.30 p.m. on October 1, a woman returned to her home and heard footsteps coming from the upper floor.

As she went to investigate, she heard an upstairs door open. She ran outside, only to see a man running from the home.

When she returned, she noticed a broken window on the lower floor, believed to be how the burglar entered the home, and jewellery valued at $785 and cash missing.

Police arrested Ratteray in connection to the incident and while he told Police he did not know about the burglary, the victim positively identified him.

In court, Ratteray said he had been battling drug addiction since he was 15 years old, and asked for his sentence to run concurrently with a sentence he is already serving.

Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner sentenced Ratteray to four years imprisonment to run consecutively to the current sentence, saying: "You should be given all the drug rehabilitation that prison offers."