Jail sentence for Bognor Regis burglar

Paul Tully, 37, of Ash Grove in Bognor Regis, was arrested following a break-in at a property in Victoria Drive in the early hours of November 3.

A window pane near the front door to the property had been broken, police said.

Tully was charged with burglary as well as fraud by misrepresentation in relation to a separate matter, where he was found to be using a bank card not belonging to himself at a supermarket, police said.

He pleaded guilty to all the offences.

At Portsmouth Crown Court yesterday, he was sentenced to a total of 37 months’ imprisonment, a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed.

This included three years’ imprisonment for burglary, two months for fraud (to run concurrently) and one month’s imprisonment for breach of a suspended sentence order (to run consecutively), the spokesman said.