A TEENAGE addict burgled a house while her drug dealer waited round the corner for debts to be repaid to him, Worcester Crown Court heard.

Donna Barrett got in through an open window while the occupier was upstairs and stole a purse containing £80.

A wet footprint found in the property matched her trainers, said Glyn Samuel, prosecuting.

She also stole perfume worth more than £100 from a shop and four packets of razor blades from another.

While held at Redditch police station, she vandalised a door.

Barratt, aged 18, of Granhill Close, Greenlands, Redditch, pleaded guilty to burglary, shoplifting and criminal damage.

William Rickarby, defending, argued she was a suitable candidate for a drug treatment and testing order rather than a custodial sentence.

Judge Michael Mott agreed for her to be assessed by the probation service but remanded her in custody.

All her offences were committed on bail, granted to her after questioning about a raid on a shed which she denied.

A neighbour saw her acting suspiciously outside the burgled house in Greenlands Road on November 12, said Mr Samuel.

A month later she stole perfume from Debenhams in Redditch but was detained by security staff.

She stole the razors from Superdrug in Bromsgrove on January 29

Mr Rickarby said Barratt was still in the grip of heroin addiction and all her offending stemmed from it.

Mr Rickarby claimed her heroin substitute, methadone, had been stopped, which led her back onto the drug.