A burglar who held a screwdriver to a deaf 85-year-old Seacroft woman's throat has been jailed for five years and four months.
Jamie Thompson smashed a kitchen window at the pensioner's home in Seacroft, Leeds Crown Court heard.
* Click here to sign up to free news and sport email alerts from Seacroft Today.The woman, who lives alone, was watching TV in her lounge when she looked up to see Thompson standing over her brandishing a screwdriver.
* Click here to become a fan of Seacroft Today on Facebook.Thompson, 30, of Copperfield Mount, Cross Green held the screwdriver blade to the woman's throat and demanded cash.
The court heard he fled after the terrified woman handed him £60.
Police traced drug addict Thompson through DNA evidence.
He had cut himself and left traces of blood on the broken kitchen window during the break-in at around 9pm on March 28.
Thompson admitted aggravated burglary and asked for 12 other burglaries and one offence of taking a vehicle without consent to be taken into consideration.
He is currently serving a three-and-half-year sentence imposed in April for burglary.
