A THIEF has been jailed after burglars sneaked into a seven-year-old boy's bedroom as he slept.

Lewis Georgiou, aged 21, of no fixed address, was one of two burglars who stole the child’s belongings as well as two cars from a house in Heywood Avenue, Little Lever, on September 22.

The victim, Lindsay Young, and her sons aged seven and 11 had gone to bed at 9.30pm the previous evening.

Ms Young woke at 6.30am to find the window open in her youngest son's room and blinds rustling in the wind.

The back door was also open and her empty handbag was beside it with £110 missing.

Ms Young then found that her Renault had been stolen and a Toyota Land Cruiser belonging to her mother.

The thieves had also taken her sons' mini-iPad and iPhone 6.

In a statement read out at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, Ms Young said: "I was fuming because someone sneaked into my son's bedroom in an attempt to get into my house.

"My son would have been terrified if he had woken up.

"We were alone in the house because my partner had gone to work.

"I haven't told my youngest son what happened.

"It's not fair that my children's things have been taken."

Georgiou pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary but claimed he was only the lookout during the Little Lever break-in.

Judge Mark Savill told him: "This offence had a particularly unpleasant aspect to it.

"Who on Earth thinks it is acceptable to sneak in through a bedroom window when there is a seven-year-old child sleeping?

"The boy's mother has been affected by that."

Georgiou, who was jailed for 30 months, was caught after police traced him to Farnworth.

Officers found the stolen Toyota Land Cruiser parked in George Street and the stolen mini iPad in the shed at Georgiou's girlfriend's house in nearby Tennyson Avenue

He pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary. The other break in took place on the same day in Bradley Fold Avenue, Bradley Fold.

Victim Amy Dutton had gone to bed at midnight and woke at 7.30am to find her kitchen window open and her Volkswagen Scirocco gone.

Also missing was a £3,000 mountain bike, which was recovered from Georgiou's girlfriend's shed.

In a statement read in court Ms Dutton said: "I feel violated in my own home. I couldn't believe people have rifled through by belongings."

Representing Georgiou, Asim Ali said: "He comes from a broken home and was acting as a look out. He did it to repay a debt and is still very young."

But Judge Savill told him: "Your youth has to take second place to the severity of these offences."