A pair of brothers who again went on a burgling spree while on early release from prison are back behind bars.

Mark and Gary Bulmer were caught red handed after an alert neighbour spotted them acting suspiciously on a road in Highworth. Once they were arrested they admitted to raiding three more homes in Chippenham and two in Royal Wootton Bassett.

Tessa Hingston, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court how a resident spotted Mark, 23, and Gary, 25, in Highworth on May 31. After following them on to Henley Drive he saw they had gone into a back garden so told his partner to call the police.

When officers arrived the pair were still inside the house. They shouted a 'police with Taser' warning and found Gary crouching in a cupboard and Mark hiding under a bed.

In his pocket Gary had £715 in cash as well a £750 Pandora charm bracelet, another bracelet by Vivienne Westwood along with two necklaces.

When the victim returned to the family home she told officers that a window at the back had been broken and the raiders had made a mess searching the house.

Miss Hingston said the brothers also admitted carrying out six other break-ins shortly before the Highworth raid.

They made off with more than £3,000 worth of property from homes in Station View and Vale View, in Royal Woottton Bassett, three homes on Greenway Lane, Chippenham and one in Langley Road.

Mark, of no fixed abode, and Gary, of Northampton Street, Swindon, each admitted burglary and asked for six matters to be taken into consideration.

The court heard that both had long histories of house breaking and stood to be sentenced as three strike burglars.

Both brother were last jailed in 2015, being released later last year.

Lee Mott, for Mark, said that since the pair were remanded in custody their gran had been burgled and they now knew the impact it had on people.

He said that his client was also prepared to write to his victims, or even meet them, to apologise.

Suzanne Payne, for Gary, pointed out the raid took place in daytime when the property was unoccupied.

She said he had also been upset after hearing his grandma in tears on the phone after she became a victim and hoped to change his ways.

Jailing them for three years and four months, Recorder Nicholas Atkinson QC said "The courts always take the offence of burglary seriously.

"Very seriously indeed because for the victims of burglary it is almost like a personal physical assault on them."