Peter Charles Ross, 32, of Prospect Vale, received a five-month wholly-suspended jail sentence for his role in what Magistrate Ken Stanton said must have been "most distressing" for the victim.

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Ross, who pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, and Joshua Michael Brown, 32, of Rocherlea, and a woman broke into a Western Creek home about 3.15am on April 26 last year.

They travelled to the area because they believed there was a lot of money in the house.

Brown found keys and opened the door and grabbed jewellery and electrical items worth about $20,000. When a sensor light came on the woman, who was asleep in bed, yelled out.

Brown went into the bedroom and told her to stay in bed and not come out.

The woman stayed under the bed covers. Ten minutes after the offenders left in two vehicles she rang police.

The thieves went to Longford where they withdrew $1000 from an ATM. About $12,000 of the $20,000 was recovered. Mr Stanton said it was a serious case of aggravated burglary.

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"It is one that to deter you and others and to punish you requires a term of imprisonment," he said.

Ross also pleaded guilty to driving with an illicit drug in his system, speeding, breach of bail, resisting and threatening police.

Mr Stanton suspended the jail sentence for 12 months, gave him a 12 month Community Correction Order and 98 hours of community service.

Defence counsel Beri Kurdistan said Ross would return to a job as a boilermaker.

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