A BURGLAR has been ordered by the courts to carry out unpaid work following his latest series of offences.

Ashley David Lacey-Pring entered a garage in Glenferness Avenue, Bournemouth, on June 22, with the intention of stealing from the property.

On July 22, while at custody in Bournemouth, he was found to have a quantity of amphetamine in his possession and five days later he damaged a window and window frame of a police van in Bournemouth.

Lacey-Pring, aged 25 and of Grosvenor Gardens, Boscombe, was also in magistrates’ court at Poole on November 25 in relation to the theft of a £192 worth of building materials from an address in Barrack Road, Christchurch, on November 4. 2019.

The defendant was issued with a community order having admitted the offences at a previous hearing.

Alongside the 60 hours of unpaid work, he was ordered to complete a 29-day Thinking Skills programme and 10 days rehabilitation activity requirement, as well as £920 compensation for the burglary.

The drugs were to be forfeited and destroyed.