A BURGLAR who was caught breaking in o an Oxford school has been jailed.

Drug addict Paul Bromley was seen by a neighbour as he smashed a window at d’Overbroeck’s College in Banbury Road, North Oxford. He was found inside the building when police arrived at about 11pm on November 28. No items were stolen.

The 39-year-old, who has 28 previous offences to his name, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court yesterday having earlier admitted burglary and failing to provide a drug sample at a police station.

The offence also put him in breach of a suspended sentence order imposed just two weeks earlier for offences of going equipped for burglary and having a bladed article in public.

Peter Du Feu, defending, said Bromley, of Croxford Gardens, Kidlington, is a “long-term addict with psychiatric problems”.

He said his client “finds it terribly difficult to cope while at liberty”.

Judge Mary Jane Mowat said: “I take a very dim view of burglaries in education establishments of any kind.

“Although you didn’t get to take anything you did do several hundred pounds’ worth of damage to a window.”

Bromley was jailed for six months.