A prolific Bristol burglar serving five years in jail has admitted a string of offences that police are yet to solve.

Heroin addict Nicholas Caple, 22, was jailed earlier this year for crimes including conspiracy to burgle and burglary.

In jail, he told police that he wanted to admit to 43 other crimes despite there being no evidence linking him to them.

Caple went with police in a car and pointed out where and when he had committed the offences.

At Bristol Crown Court, he was jailed for a further year concurrently after admitting burglary and asking for the 43 other offences to be taken into consideration.

The burglary he admitted was at a property in Ashley Down Road, Bishopston on November 22, 2007.

Paul Connell, prosecuting, said the owner of the property had been away when his door was kicked down with two mountain bikes worth £3,000, and £2,500 of cash, stolen.

Sarah Regan, defending, said her client had been a prolific offender due to an addiction to heroin

She said Caple had called to be dealt with for the offences he has now been jailed for before he received his five-year prison sentence and wrote three letters to the police.

The judge accepted that the matters should have been dealt with when Caple was originally sentenced.

Miss Regan said: "This is a young man who wants to change his life. At the time of interviews, police had no evidence linking Caple to any of the crimes."

Jailing Caple for 12 months, Mr Recorder Ignatius Hughes QC said: "It's not your fault that all of the matters I deal with today were not dealt with some time ago when you received a substantial sentence of imprisonment.

" It would be unfair to you to now add to your sentence."