Twisted luck as burglar falls asleep after eating ice cream during house raid

UK: A dozy burglar was jailed today for a Goldilocks crime - falling asleep in the spare bedroom after eating too much during a house raid.

Greedy Matthew Waters, 30, ate a whole tub of ice cream before lying down on the bed and falling asleep.

He was woken when startled homeowner Julie James, 51, returned from work to find Water sprawled on the bed in her spare room.

Newport Crown Court heard her screams woke the dozing burglar up from his snooze.

Waters “looked stunned” when he woke on the bed and got up and ran past Mrs James to leave the house, in Pontypool, South Wales.

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Waters was caught after a Crimewatch appeal to find the real-life Goldilocks raider.

Mrs James told how panicked when she found sleeping Waters - and that her grandchildren began crying.

She said: “Since this, when I come home from work, I take a poker from the grate and check all the rooms.

“For weeks later I could not sleep for thinking that someone may break in,” the letter continued.

Recorder Nigel Thomas described Waters as a “nuisance”.

Recorder Nigel Thomas said: “It was very scary for Mrs James who found you and had no idea of how you would react when you woke up.”

Waters, of no fixed address, was sentenced to eight months imprisonment after pleading guilty to burglary and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £100.

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