A serial housebreaker who stole a firefighter’s treasured Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and raided cash from children’s bedrooms has been jailed for a total of ten months.

Scott Sales, 20, burgled six homes in the East Bowling area of Bradford in three months, including three on the same street.

He was brought in custody to Bradford Crown Court yesterday from a young offender institution where he is serving six months meted out by Bradford and Keighley magistrates for one of the offences.

Judge David Hatton QC gave Sales an extra four months for the remaining five break-ins.

Sales, of no fixed address, admitted burgling a family home on Bowling Hall Road on the afternoon of March 4.

He smashed a window to gain entry and made off with the medal, a games console, jewellery, the children’s money and other items, valued in total at £2,600.

He asked for four more house burglaries, two on Bowling Hall Road, one on Sheridan Street and one on Rooley Avenue, to be taken into consideration when he was sentenced.

Prosecutor Richard Smith said the medal was recovered when police arrested Sales and searched his home.

He had sold many of the other stolen items.