A TEENAGER who raided an 82-year-old man's home as he slept has been detained for 27 months.

Burnley Crown Court heard Sammy Clark, 19, left his victim shaken up and feeling very vulnerable.

He realised his property in Burnley had been raided when he woke up and found his trousers were in the living room instead of by his bed.

The victim discovered a mobile phone, £13 cash and cigarettes had been taken.

The pensioner, who has a heart pacemaker, was being looked after by a carer after suffering several strokes before the attack on his home.

Clark, of Graham Street, Padiham, was in breach of a suspended jail term imposed for robbery and also a conditional discharge at the time.

He had admitted burglary in February and had been committed for sentence by Burnley magistrates.

He asked for an offence of theft of alcohol the same night, to be considered.

The defendant was sent to a Young Offenders' Institution.

Sentencing him, Judge Jonathan Gibson said the offence was serious and aggravated by the fact was victim was 82 and had been in bed.

He continued: "Such offences cause very considerable alarm and distress to people.

"They don't feel secure in their own homes as a result and it's often the case it interferes very significantly with their quality of life, particularly the elderly."

David Farley, prosecuting, said the victim lived on Padiham Road.

The defendant's fingerprints were found inside the property.

Clark told police he had not been alone on the burglary.

Anthony Stephenson, for Clark, said his client was a ‘foolish and immature man’.

Mr Stephenson said: “He realises how dangerous it could be if that man had woken up, with his age, his infirmity, to find two relatively young men in his house at night.

"Thankfully, that did not happen."