A convicted burglar caught trying to break into a home on a Ring doorbell tried to flee the scene on a child's pink bike.
The victim was woken at 2.40am when he was notified by his Ring doorbell that someone was outside his home on Capricorn Crescent, Huyton.
When he checked his phone he saw stranger Craig Ford, whose face was partly covered by a mask and who appeared to be fiddling with the front door lock, said Nardeen Nemat, prosecuting in Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday, January 20.