Two Mirfield men have been jailed after breaking into a card factory twice and causing thousands of pounds damage.

Chris Forgie and Stephen Kenny targeted Dewsbury-based firm UK Greetings Ltd over two days.

A company manager put the cost of repairing the damage at £7,000 after the pair smashed their way though a window and fire door.

Forgie, 29, and Kenny, 52, admitted that they were desperate to find money to fund their addictions to heroin.

They pleaded guilty to two charges of burglary at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court.

The men first targeted the company, based at Queens Mill in Savile Town, on March 31.

The Huddersfield court heard that the firm supplies cards nationally but production takes place at that factory.

On the first occasion Forgie and Kenny forced their way into the building, they broke into various vending machines and took money from them.

They also took a till, which was discarded in a river nearby.

The men returned at 3am the following day. This time they entered through the kitchen area and took money from a vending machine.

They took £500 in cash and property damaged included a £1,000 fire door and three vending machines worth £500 each.

In mitigation Carl Kingsley said that Forgie, of Hirst Street in Lower Hopton, was a self-employed builder until recently and had been taking heroin for two years.

Kenny, of Cooperative Street in Lower Hopton, spent up to £20 a day on the same class A drug.

Mr Kingsley said: “He then adopted Chris Forgie who is also on drugs.

“He put him up at his address and both, then desperate for money and desperate for drugs, committed the offences.”

District Judge Michael Fanning told the men that they had a poor record, having committed around 28 theft-related offences each.

He said: “This is planned and targeted offending.

You’ve entered the premises once, not content with that you’ve returned again to see if you can better your gains.

“(You have) been responsible for significant damage.”

Both men were jailed for 18 weeks and must each pay £80 victim surcharge upon their release.