A HEROIN addict who stole disco illuminations is facing lights out after being sent to prison.
Nathan Hosking, aged 32, burgled a home and took items including disco lights, Plymouth Crown Court heard.
He stands convicted of his third burglary of a home and faced an automatic three-year prison term.
Jailing him for two years and five months with discount for guilty plea, Judge Jeremy Griggs said: "The court has no discretion but to pass a custodial sentence."
The court heard the defendant took the disco lights, a television set and some food from a flat in North Hill.
Court papers had previously said he had taken a disco ball, rather than lights.
Hosking, of Valletort Place, Stoneouse, admitted burgling the home in Queen Anne Terrace on November 3.
He has also pleaded guilty to handling speakers taken from another flat in the same street earlier the same night.
Hosking finally asked for two similar offences to be taken into consideration.
Will Willden, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said two homes were burgled within three hours.
He added that Hosking took a television set, some food and disco lights worth £70.
Mr Willden said police found some of the food in Hosking's fridge and other stolen goods in his home.
He added that officers spoke to a taxi driver who recalled a fare from the terrace loading a television into his boot.
Ali Rafati, for Hosking, said he had a long record of crime and offences of dishonesty to fund a chronic addiction.
He added that he had received treatment last year but had fallen back into using street drugs when he had missed an appointment to pick up his methadone, prescribed as a heroin substitute.
Mr Rafati said he was taken into hospital with a heart complaint and lost his room at a hostel.
He added: "He committed the offence when he had nowhere to go and no methadone."
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