A teenaged burglar with a history of offences has been jailed for six months in Magistrates’ Court.Jaymi O’Brian Edwards, 19, of Southampton, admitted two counts of burglary. He said he had been driven by the need to pay his Bermuda College tuition an excuse branded “poppycock” by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.Crown counsel Geoffrey Faiella said that Edwards was caught after a resident on Pie Crust Hill Place, Southampton, spotted him and another man driving away from a two-dwelling house that was broken into on July 21.Edwards refused to reveal the identity of his accomplice, but confessed to burgling $4,000 worth of electronics and video games from the two homes. He has been in custody since July 25.Pleading for leniency, Edwards told the court he was one of 28 people chosen to go to Germany this summer for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards, and regretted missing the chance.“I resorted to this to pay for my tuition at Bermuda College,” he said.Calling it “a load of nonsense”, Mr Warner said Edwards was given a conditional discharge for breaking and entering in 2008, and had subsequently been placed in corrective training for another burglary offence.“You need to stay where you are a little longer,” he said. “The carrot and the stick must go together, and you’ve had the carrot.”Mr Warner imprisoned Edwards for six months, to be followed by three years’ probation. His time spent in custody will be taken into account.