A junkie burglar has been jailed for 22 months for stealing the ashes of a South Yorkshire man's dead wife.
Heroin addict Wayne Fieldsend, aged 28, broke into a neighbour's unoccupied home in Athersley, Barnsley, hoping to find goods to sell to feed his addiction, Sheffield Crown Court heard.
He stole a box believing it contained jewellery which turned out to be an oak urn containing the remains of 62-year-old Margaret Lucas who had died three weeks earlier.
Speaking after Fieldsend was jailed for 22 months, Mrs Lucas' husband Maurice, 66, a retired pit worker said: "The sentence is not long enough. He has caused me a great deal of grief.
"He must have known what he was taking. There is a plaque with my late wife's name on the top. It is just disgusting anyone could stoop so low."
The urn was found abandoned by a rubbish bin near Fieldsend's home and it was returned intact to Mr Lucas.
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