Burglar ransacked Leeds home to steal electric bike -then took videos on his phone
He knew the occupants and forced his way in as they slept
A teenage burglar who broke into a home in the middle of the night was later found to have recorded videos of the electric bike he stole.
One of those included two people on the bike wearing balaclavas, Leeds Crown Court was told.
Levi King was jailed for the break-in after the judge told him previous community punishments had clearly failed to deter him from crime.
The victims in Bramley had gone to bed on the night of September 27 having locked all the doors.
At 1.55am the next morning, the female occupant was awoken by the sound of a dog barking. Her son went downstairs and found the back door and window open.
The window had been prised open, prosecutor Oishee Dey told the court.
An untidy search of the property had been carried out and the only missing item was the £2,000 electric bike that had been left charging in the living room.
The police attended and found fingerprints belonging to 19-year-old King on the open window ledge.
He was known to the family, the court heard.
King was arrested several weeks later, having been found hiding under bunk beds at his home on Fairfield Hill in Bramley.
His iPhone was seized and three videos of the stolen bike were found. King gave a no-comment interview.
Held on remand at HMP Doncaster, he admitted a charge of dwelling burglary.
He has 14 previous convictions for 28 offences, including multiple thefts, handling stolen goods, going equipped and dangerous driving.
Mitigating, Sam Roxborough said there had been no serious convictions on King’s record until now and that he was still a teenager.
He said his offending did not start until 2023 because he had “fallen in with the wrong crowd”.
King was kicked out school in year nine and struggled to read and write, and that he had a challenging childhood with his own father being “in and out of prison”.
Having been remanded since October 22, Mr Roxborough said: “He has told me it’s been a real eye opener. He has felt completely lost.”
Offering little sympathy, Judge Ray Singh told King: “There comes a time that you have to go to prison.
“Rather than take the help offered, you have gone on to commit more serious matters. You have failed to comply with community orders.”
He jailed him for 20 months.