FINGERPRINTS left on a bin bag led to the capture of a Trowbridge man who burgled an old peoples' home, a court has heard.

Craig Dyer used a bin to wheel away a TV and frozen food stolen from the Lyes Grove Residential Home in Dilton Marsh on August 17 last year.

The 32-year-old was jailed for nine months after Swindon Crown Court heard he was tracked down through prints left on the black bin liner.

Jane Warren, prosecuting, said Dyer, when arrested, denied breaking into the home, or ever having been to Dilton Marsh but pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary at an earlier hearing.

Alan Fuller, defending, said his client had been drunk at the time of the break-in and was deeply remorseful for what he had done.

Since the offence, he told the court, his client had been the victim of a brutal attack which had a profound affect on him.

Jailing him Judge Tom Long-botham said: "You stole from residential premises housing elderly and vulnerable people.

"Despite all the other circumstances this is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified."