Sunday September 19, 2010
‘Goldlilocks’ burglar caught napping in victims’ home
GEORGE TOWN: A burglar paid the price for taking a nap after ransacking a double-storey house in Sungai Nibong of jewellery and watches worth more than RM10,000. The houseowner’s wife, who returned home with her husband and two children at 4pm on Friday, found him fast asleep on a sofa in one of the rooms in the house.
The 42-year-old burglar, who claimed to be a state assemblyman’s assistant, managed to slip out from the house via a kitchen window when the police arrived. However, his freedom was shortlived when police caught him after a 50m chase. George Town OCPD Asst Comm Gan Kong Meng said the house owner, a 53-year-old retiree, had earlier gone for a vacation in Selangor with his wife and children.
“They were shocked to find the living room in a mess and a car belonging to the suspect parked in front of the house. “When his wife went up the upper floor to check the bedrooms, she was surprised to find a stranger taking a nap in her son’s room. “The family then called the police,” he said at a press conference at the Patani Road police station here yesterday.
ACP Gan said police also seized an assortment of tools used for house break-ins from the suspect’s car. He said the suspect, who claimed he worked as an assistant for a state assemblyman in the Bayan Baru parliamentary constituency, has 14 previous convictions for criminal and drug related offences. The assemblyman concerned denied the suspect was working for him.
