A BURGLAR "fuelled by heroin addiction" who broke into New-port's Rugby Football Club and stole a plasma television and more than £400 in cash was jailed for almost three years yesterday.

Levi Gulwell, aged 23, from Hendre Farm Drive, Newport, appeared before the city's crown court after pleading guilty to three other burglaries and being in breach of a drug treatment and testing order.

In November last year Gulwell was sentenced to the order at Cardiff crown court after pleading guilty to carrying out the burglary at Rodney Parade in April 2004.

Prosecutor Christian Jowet said Gulwell stole a plasma television and £430 in cash from the club.

This February Gulwell appeared before Newport crown court to be sentenced after he admitted house burglaries in Usk and Chepstow in April 2004.

The sentence was deferred by three months, during which Gulwell was convicted of stealing two legs of pork from the Glen-yr-Afon Hotel in Usk last month, and he was also convicted of stealing credit cards from a house in Monmouth and jewellery from a home in Chepstow last August.

Harry Baker, mitigating, said Gulwell pleaded guilty to all the offences and had made admissions.

Judge David Morris sentenced Gulwell to a total of 34 months in prison, telling him he had a "bad record of offending" which was "fuelled by heroin addiction".