TWO men have admitted five burglaries of sheds and outbuildings in Cam and Berkeley.

Kirk Jarvis, 36, from Thornbury, and Damien Galliford, 23, of Ullswater, Southmead, Bristol, entered their guilty pleas at Gloucester Crown Court on Friday to a spate of offences between May 29 and June 1 this year.

They will be sentenced at Gloucester Crown Court on September 1.

Jarvis was already on a suspended prison sentence for stealing from sheds when he committed the offences, the court heard.

They stole chainsaws, strimmers, drills, sanders, hedge-trimmers and generators from sheds, workshops and outbuildings.

Judge Jamie Tabor QC said: "I do not regard thieving from sheds as minor. They were busy."

Greg Gordon, representing Jarvis said that his client had a “drug debt” and that is why he offended.

The judge said "I have no sympathy for that at all. Drug debts are the bane of our lives."

Sabhia Pathan, for Galliford, said her client "had a brain injury, and as a result he has difficulties in understanding the consequences of his actions."

The judge said that he was not certain that he should grant them bail as they had been "burrowing into other people's properties, causing very considerable sadness and unhappiness as a result" but decided on balance he would release them until the sentencing date.