A 'CINDERELLA' housebreaker who demanded a kiss from his sleeping victim has been jailed after leaving a shoe in another victim's back garden.

Adrian Ursachi was jailed for three years after police tracked him down from the trainer he left behind.

The Romanian national, who has lived in Harrow for three years, admitted breaking into two homes earlier this year and was sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on Tuesday morning.

In June a 45-year-old woman, who was sleeping just yards from her husband in their living room, was horrified to be awoken by the 23-year-old who was standing over her, holding her shoulders down and demanding a kiss.

He had forced open a kitchen window at the home she shares with her husband and three children, before drawing a curtain that separates the two sofas on which she and her husband were sleeping.

Ursachi repeatedly asked his victim for a kiss but fled the scene when she screamed and pleaded for help from her grown-up son who was asleep upstairs.

One month later a couple in Wellesley Road were woken by Ursachi, who was in their bedroom, before the husband chased him downstairs.

Ursachi threw a pushchair at him and then smashed a garden chair in front of him outside the house - before escaping over a series of garden fences but leaving his shoe behind.

Police searched the surrounding area based on a description from the couple and finally found him - minus one trainer.

His fingerprints linked him to the first burglary.

On Tuesday he was handed a three-year prison sentence and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register, on which he will remain for the next 10 years.

During sentencing Judge Stephen Holt told Ursachi: "In the first incident your victim was fast asleep at 2am when she awoke to find you pushing down on her shoulders.

"She could smell the alcohol on your breath and you kept saying, 'let me kiss you', and you were too strong for her.

"That must have been a terrifying ordeal for her.

"To be woken up in her own home to find a man pushing down on her demanding a kiss.

"There is really no way of explaining why you behaved like this other than through alcohol fuelled idiocy."

Ursachi was given two years in jail for trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence and an additional 12 months for burglary.