Two teenagers carried on burgling a house after finding the owner dead in bed, Cardiff Crown Court has heard.
The judge said Steven Thomas, 18, and Wesley Price, 17, were guilty of "sacrilege" by continuing to ransack the house instead of raising the alarm.
They fled with a PlayStation and other valuables from the home of bachelor John Hoddinott, 50, in Merthyr Tydfil.
The court heard Mr Hoddinott, who lived alone in the Galon Uchaf area, had died of natural causes before the pair, who were 17 and 16 at the time, broke in to his home last November.
Judge David Wynn Morgan told the pair: "It does not require much imagination to anticipate the shock you had when you discovered the body in the house.
"But what is really disturbing is after that discovery you both took part in stealing property from the house. "
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