Partner Article

Burglar turned in by weather

Monday’s weather was of no help to a bungling burglar who was stopped in his tracks by police - and the snow. It didn’t take a super sleuth to work out which way the thief had gone after the break-in - officers simply followed the footprint trail left in the snow from the scene of the crime to his home.

Police were alerted to a break-in at the Ivy Leaf Club in Burnhope, County Durham, early on Monday morning after an intruder alarm was activated. At the scene they found footprints leading several hundred yards down a path to a nearby house where they arrested a man in his 20s.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .