A man who broke into a bar, a school and a house over a six-month spell was found out through DNA checks on blood and fingerprints found at the scene of the break-ins.

Justin Dane Ingemann has been given a two-year prison sentence, suspended for three years, after admitting breaking into a retail property, a school and a house and damaging property and stealing cash from two of the locations last year.

The 23-year-old from St. George's has agreed to pay back $3,500 of money that he stole when he broke into Freddy's Bar in King's Square, St. George's and the Francis Patton Primary School in Hamilton Parish in March 2005.

He also broke into a vacant home in Ferry Reach, St. George's in September last year, damaging a window and shutter.

Prosecutor Shakira Dill told the Supreme Court that Freddy's Bar was broken into on the night of March 14 last year.

The following morning the owner discovered the break-in and found blood in some areas of the property that apparently had been left behind by the burglar. A drawer had been forced open and $3,000 had been stolen.

There was also $175 missing from a juke box and a transformer worth $50 had also been taken.

The court was told that a subsequent investigation by Police had matched the blood found at the scene with Ingemann's, and evidence from a close circuit camera at the bar had caught Ingemann carrying out the raid.

A few days earlier, on March 11, the Francis Patton Primary School on North Shore Road had been broken into during the night. A computer printer and window been broken and $500 in cash taken from a secretary's office, said Ms. Dill.

Again specks of blood were found at the scene as were fingerprints. The fingerprints matched Ingemann's.

On August 20 last year a home in Ferry Road, St. George's was broken into while the occupant was away on vacation. A window and shutter were damaged, although no property appeared to have been stolen. Police investigating the crime found fingerprints and again matched them to Ingemann.

Ingemann, of Ferry Road, was arrested and pleaded guilty to the three break-ins and the thefts when he appeared at the arraignments session on May 1.

In mitigation, lawyer Elizabeth Christopher said Ingemann, who suffers black-outs as a result of a previous head injury, did not have any recollection of the incident at Freddy's Bar but accepted his DNA was found at the crime scene.

She said he had remained out of trouble since the last break-in last September.

Judge Charles-Etta Simmons put Ingemann on a three year probation order that included provision to undergo drug and alcohol testing and to attend a treatment programme for drug and alcohol usage. She also placed him under a home curfew between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. for one year and further ordered he repay $3,000 to the owner of Freddy's Bar and $500 to the Francis Patton school.