A burglar left a trail of blood to his home after smashing a shop window and crawling through to get bottles of drink.

Police alerted by an alarm to the break-in at the One-Stop store in Warbler Place, Kidderminster, followed the splashes of blood to Lee Morris's house in nearby Hawfinch Rise.

There were several people in the house and after a bottle of vodka was thrown at officers a stand-off occurred until reinforcements arrived.

The door was broken down and Morris arrested.

Morris, 25, was jailed for two years at Worcester Crown Court after pleading guilty to burglary, theft from four Kidderminster shops and failing to surrender to bail on three occasions.

Judge Michael Mott said it was "highly irresponsible" by magistrates and police to continue giving bail to a person who persisted in committing crime and failing to surrender to bail.

Brett Stevenson, prosecuting, said Morris took six bottles of spirits worth £165 after smashing the One-Stop store window with a paving slab.

There was £900 damage to the glass. The shoplifting occurred while Morris was on bail.

Adam Western, defending, said Morris, who has a six-year-old son, was drunk when he committed the clumsily-executed crime.