A burglar who stole tea, coffee and food during a low value heist has walked free after transforming himself from a "scruffy junkie" into a doting dad.
Mark Little was 20 years into living a "squalid" life as a drug addict when he broke into a flat where there little of value.
A court heard his pitiful haul included a phone charger, tea bags, food, salt, coffee, an ashtray and coasters during the break-in in Elswick, Newcastle.
