A distraction burglar has been jailed after he left DNA on his victim's kitchen tap.

Martin O'Neill, 32, was sentenced to three years and nine months imprisonment at Oxford Crown Court today for burglary.

O'Neill, of Old Gloucester Road, Bristol, was sentenced following two distraction burglaries, one in November, in Hawkins Way, Wootton, near Abingdon, and a second one in Gloucester.

Pc Stephen Knight said: "We are really pleased that we have caught this burglar. Distraction burglaries are despicable crimes where the vulnerable are often the victims.

"In this case, the scenes of crimes officers successfully managed to identify some DNA on a kitchen tap which then led to this man being identified and subsequently arrested."