BALLYMENA: A 27-year-old man of no fixed abode with 119 previous convictions was jailed for four months after punching and breaking a window at a Simon Community hostel, causing £250 worth of damage.

BELFAST: A 23-year-old man was sentenced in two separate courts on the same day, receiving a ten-month term for burgling a home and assaulting its 82-year-old resident, followed by an 18-month sentence - six months in custody and 12 on licence - for attempting to smuggle a mobile phone, cannabis, diazepam and ketamine into the Young Offenders Centre at Hydebank.