A burglar was yesterday jailed for four years after telling Magistrates’ Court that his relapse into cocaine addiction had ruined his life.Antonio Thompson, 35, admitted to prowling, burglary and handling stolen goods on January 12, in St George’s.Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Cindy Clarke told the court that at 6.12pm a resident of a Ballast Point Road house left her home secure, but returned to find jewellery on the kitchen floor. A window was open, and the door beside it unlocked.The occupants discovered that an $800 Sony laptop computer had been taken, along with jewellery valued at $3,120, and $81 in cash.The court heard also that at 8.15pm, at another Ballast Point Road address, a woman was getting her daughters ready for bed when motion sensor lights came on outside.The resident could see a man outside her kitchen door, who ran when she spoke to him.Her husband chased the intruder away, then discovered that someone had rifled through the glove compartment of the car. Nothing had been stolen.Police were on their way to the scene when they saw a man fitting Thompson’s description leaving the area on a motorcycle.Refusing to stop, the suspect was pulled over by police on Kindley Field Road, and seen throwing objects to the ground. Thompson was arrested after a search uncovered jewellery on his person. Items from the earlier burglary were also recovered, and identified at the police station by their owner.Two iPods were also found on Thompson, who denied burglary and said he had bought them for $25 from a man in Hamilton. However, the owner of one of the iPods subsequently attended Hamilton Police Station and was able to identify the device.Scheduled for an identity parade, Thompson wrote on the document: “It was me, no sense taking part in this.”Ms Clarke said Thompson had multiple past convictions for burglary and robbery, and was on parole for drug offences at the time of the most recent offence.Duty counsel Leo Mills told the court that Thompson, a resident at Focus Counselling, was a cocaine addict who had relapsed.Thompson said: “Anything I have to say has been said. The 28 months being clean were the best time of my life. This relapse came at the worst possible time. I was going to get married and have lost the opportunity to have a wife.”Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment for prowling, four years for burglary, and one year for handling stolen goods.The sentences are to run concurrently, but consecutive to any previous sentences activated by the parole violation.