A burglar was caught sleeping in a car outside the house he had broken
into. Police picked up Alexander Sinclair, 30, after banging repeatedly
on the window of the car parked outside the house he'd just burgled.Officers had been called by the house and car's owner, who woke at 6am
to find his front door ajar and his car keys missing. He had gone
outside expecting the vehicle to have gone too, but instead he found
Sinclair sleeping. Sinclair told police he had been on his way to the
train station after a night out drinking in Cardiff and when it started
to rain he just needed somewhere dry to rest.
He claimed he locked the car doors, on Rhymney Street, Cathays, Cardiff,
in case the owner came out but intended posting the keys back in the
morning. Cardiff Crown Court heard
it wasn’t the first time that Alexander Sinclair had fallen asleep on the job. The
court was told that in April last year, Devon and Cornwall police had
to use bolt cutters to open the door of a hotel room where they found
him fast asleep under a duvet.
Against doctors’ orders, the 30-year-old had been mixing alcohol with
his depression medication, said defense counsel Byron Broadstock. Giving
him a six-month suspended sentence for the Cardiff offense, Recorder
Judge Eleri Rees said that going into someone’s home had a profound
psychological effect on the victim. She ordered Sinclair, who admitted
burglary, to undergo a alcohol treatment program.
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