A burglar was part of a gang that broke into a Caversham home in August.

Jimmy Cash, 30, was given 42 months and 14 days’ imprisonment at Oxford Crown Court after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to conspiracy to burgle, assault by beating and bilking.

Together with other men, he burgled a house in Caversham, Reading, on August 4.

But in a basis of plea he denied being involved in breaking into homes in Henley and Marlow on the same day.

Cash did, however, admit bilking – making off without paying for £70 of fuel at a Texaco garage in Charvil, Wokingham.

Judge Maria Lamb jailed Cash, of Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire, for 42 months and 14 days, the equivalent of three-and-a-half years.

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