Pound World Plus owner Nigel Staples admitted he sometimes sleeps in the Bridge shop to protect himself from being a victim again.
He said he had been left feeling totally violated and upset when 33-year-old Russell High broke into the Bridge-based shop and used an axe to open a tobacco case before making away with hundreds of pounds- worth of items.
High was sentenced to 15 months in prison for the incident and ordered to pay £155.50 compensation to Mr Staples plus £250 for the trouble he has caused him.
It is now the third time the shop owner has been burgled – twice before at the Barras Convenience Store, which he has run for the last three years.
'Some nights I have stayed in my shop to guard it because I am so afraid of being burgled again. I was always one who thought Guernsey was a safe place and there wasn't much crime but now I have an insight and I know just how violated it feels.
'A lot of people think having your home burgled is different to having a business burgled but it is exactly the same. It is everything I own, everything I have worked for, all contained in that premises.'
