VICTIM THREW BURGLAR OUT OF HIS HOME

A BURGLAR caught going through his victim's fridge was beaten up, hit with a beer bottle and thrown out of the flat, a court has heard.

- JASON EVANS Reporter

Michael Parker - who has more than 150 previous offences on his record - was arrested a matter of days after the raid when he attended court on unrelated matters.

A judge at Swansea Crown Court said it must have been a terrifying experience for the victim to find a hooded man in his kitchen, and he said immediate custody was inevitable in the case. Parker's advocate said his 46-year-old client can remember little or nothing about the events of the night due to the amount of Valium he had consumed.

Harry Dickens, prosecuting, told the court that at around 6.30pm on February 24 this year a man was in his flat in Mount Pleasant, Swansea, when he heard a "rustling noise" coming from the kitchen. The homeowner went to investigate and found Parker - his face obscured by two hoods - rifling through his fridge.