A SOUTHAMPTON man is behind bars today after being recognised burgling a house by someone who used to go to school with him.

The witness was by chance sitting in a car with three others when he was shocked to see James Grant open a window at a house in Tennyson Road and then get in.

Prosecutor Eleanor Fargin told the city crown court they had seen the lounge light come on for two or three minutes before it was switched off and Grant climbed out.

Police were called and Grant was arrested after he clambered over the wall of another nearby house.

The court heard that nothing had been stolen.

Grant, 25, of Landguard Road, Southampton, admitted burglary and an unrelated case of shoplifting as well as being in breach of a suspended sentence imposed for stealing a bike at a pub.

Grant was jailed for 66 weeks.