A burglar has been jailed for 16 months after he admitted a string of thefts in a crime spree nearly 30 years ago.

Stuart McDonald, 51, confessed to 18 offences including stealing car keys, breaking into fruit machines and a burglary of an Argos store after handing himself into police. 

At Cambridge Crown Court on Friday, 18 March, McDonald pled guilty to two counts of burglary.

The judge took into account a further 16 offences that McDonald admitted to. 

He was jailed for 16 months in prison after visiting his local police station and admitting the crime spree which ran from 1993 to 2006.

He committed a burglary at a pub in St Neots in 1994 when he broke in through a window and targeted fruit machines to steal £1,000 in cash. He also took some car keys.

McDonald, of no fixed address, also admitted burglary of a former Argos store in Huntingdon in 2006 when he took a bracelet from the counter.

His fingerprints were linked to both crimes. 

DC Lisa Bacon, of Cambridgeshire Police, said: 'McDonald has made the decision to clear his offending past and get the support he needs to prevent him returning to a life of crime.'