TWO Oxford burglars, including one who stole a puppy, have been jailed.

Shane Coates and Declan Williamson were jailed at Oxford Crown Court on Wednesday.

Williamson, 22, admitted two counts of burglary and asked for 17 more similar offences to be taken into consideration (TIC).

He burgled the Scout centre at Youlbury, near Boars Hill, and a large property in nearby Wootton on July 12.

Coates, 23, was convicted by jurors of being involved in the Wootton burglary, in which a Nintendo Wii, mobile phone, TV and video games, as well as clothes, were taken.

Nothing was taken from the break-in at Youlbury House, which was left to the Scouting movement in 1941 by Sir Arthur Evans, a former keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

Judge Mary Jane Mowat, who noted Williamson, of Slade Close, Headington, had admitted stealing a puppy in one of his TICs, jailed him for 40 months.

It is not known what happened to the puppy.

Coates, of Lytton Road, Cowley, was jailed for 20 months.