A young offender admitted burgling an old people's home to try to steal a video recorder.
Durham Crown Court heard that Wayne Bates entered the communal living room at the Pavilion Residential Home, in Chilton Moor, near Houghton-le-Spring, Wearside.
His barrister, Stephen Rich, stressed that Bates did not go residents' bedrooms during the break-in, last June.
Bates, 20, admitted a further burglary, when he took a printer from Liquid Moulded Components, on Dubmire Industrial Estate, in Fencehouses.
Sentence was adjourned for probation reports, and Bates, of Front Street, Fencehouses, was remanded in custody.
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