A convicted sex offender has now been jailed for almost four years after a drug-fuelled campaign of burglaries. 

A judge said that Jordan McDonagh, of Parsons Place, caused "havoc and misery" to the businesses and homes he burgled over a six-month period last year. 

McDonagh, 28, was jailed for a total of 47 months at a hearing at Oxford Crown Court on Friday, January 3. 

He had previously been jailed in 2017 for 40 months after embarking on a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl.

Oxford Crown Court heard that he committed a number of thefts from businesses, homes, cars and a shed between March 1 and August 24 last year.

He was also in breach of two suspended sentences and attended the hearing remotely from HMP Bullingdon. 

The court heard that McDonagh had been addicted to drugs, but had been clean since he was admitted to custody in August. 

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(Image: Oxford Mail) Chris Waymont, prosecuting, explained the charges.

He told the court that on March 1, McDonagh broke into the Jin Jin Chinese Restaurant in Cowley Road and stole £600 in cash. 

On March 14, he broke into the Rice Box Chinese Restaurant and Takeaway, also in Cowley Road and took £80 cash. He then returned to the Rice Box on March 17 and took nothing and then again on March 27 and made off with 200 cigarettes, drinks, five ducks and cans of coke. 

On April 11, he targeted the Oxford Pizza N Grill in Cowley Road, making off with £100 and the butcher's next door taking £1,000. The court heard that the owner had to spend £5,000 on repairs. 

On April 19, McDonagh stole £630 from the till of The Black Swan, in Crown Street, and the owner had to spend £300 repairing the till and £1,500 repairing the doors. 

On April 30, he broke into a shed at a property in Minster Road and stole a bike worth £300 and cut the frame of another bike worth £900. He broke into vehicles on May 13 and between July 26-29. 

He stole cash, iPads and alcohol from the Donnington Arms in Howard Street and broke into an office at Oxford International College and stole a laptop and Love Honey products. 

Between July 27 and 29 he broke into Connel's Estate Agents and between July 26 and 30, he broke into La Croissanterie Cafe. 

He stole £7,000 from a safe at Rio’s Piri Piri, in London Rad, and stole items including watches and jewellery from a property in Quarry High Street. 

Eiran Reilly, mitigating, said: “He started taking drugs and it has devastated his life. He will never take Class A drugs again. He wants to make amends for what he has done. He was ravaged by addiction.”

The judge Recorder Joseph Hart said: “You caused havoc and misery. You were a career burglar.”

McDonagh was jailed for 47 months, half of which will be in custody and the rest will be on licence in the community.