A MAN was arrested after he tried to sell electrical items stolen in a burglary the same day, a court heard.

A manager at second-hand goods store Cash Converters, in Hartlepool, called police after Craig Parvin attempted to sell various items which had been stolen from a family home in the town.

Prosecuting at Teesside Crown Court, Shaun Dodds said a family living in Bruce Crescent discovered their home had been burgled after waking up on the morning of March 7 this year.

A television, games consoles, iPod, jewellery, camera and cash were among the goods stolen.

At 5pm the same day Parvin walked into Cash Converters and offered some of the items at a “vastly reduced” price.

The manager had already been alerted to the burglary by the householder and called the police who arrested the 20-year-old.

They later went to his home in Jacques Court, Hartlepool, and found some of the stolen items.

Parvin admitted two counts of handling stolen goods and one of theft with police matching other items which had been stolen in car break-ins in Hartlepool to those also found at his home.

Martin Scarborough, mitigating, said Parvin did not have a lengthy criminal record and had not previously committed any offences of dishonesty.

Parvin had been subject to an electronically tagged curfew since his arrest, having breached a conditional discharge he had previously been given.

Judge Howard Crowson gave Parvin a 16-month jail sentence, suspended for a year, and said he would do unpaid work in the community while being supervised by the probation service.

He told him: “You’ve served a short apprenticeship in dishonesty and ended up right on the threshold of prison.”