A bungling burglar was caught out by a cat flap as his clumsy attempt to rob someone's home meant he was found out by a stranded feline.
Ex-heroin addict Glenn Foster, from Hull, East Yorkshire, managed to mess up the mechanism of the cat flap through his ham-fisted antics. Foster had a huge list of 164 previous offences, and gave himself away when the luckless cat that lived there was trapped outside in the cold and could not get back inside.
The occupier of the house soon realised that somebody must have burgled his home because he noticed that, unusually, his cat was outside that morning and was not safely snuggled up inside, Hull Live reports. Foster, 47, of Dane View, Dibsdane, Orchard Park estate, Hull, admitted burglary on May 31 last year at crown court.
