AN ILLEGAL immigrant kicked out of Britain was back in the country weeks later to burgle an Oxford house.

Albanian Xhim Tota was deported at the end of January but was caught red-handed on March 6.

The 23-year-old was arrested by police after a chase through North Oxford.

He and another man had stolen jewellery, a camera, a video games console, a DVD player and other items from the house in Buckler Road at about 8.30am that day.

All the stolen property was recovered, Oxford Crown Court was told on Tuesday.

Tota, whose address was given as Pennycress Road, Blackbird Leys, admitted a charge of burglary.

Roger Coventry, prosecuting, said: “He came to Oxford to burgle for food. He’s an Albanian national, he’s illegal and he’s due to be deported.

“He was removed from the country at the end of January and he came back.”

Fresh deportation papers had already been served on Tota, the court heard.

Judge Christopher Compston jailed him for four months, stating it was the shortest possible prison sentence to hasten Tota’s removal from the country at the end of it.

He said: “It really is a matter of common sense, which occasionally afflicts the courts.”