A hapless burglar who broke his leg when he leapt from an upstairs window of a house he was raiding as been jailed.
As previously reported on Chroniclelive, Dion Johnston injured himself trying to flee after police turned up while he was in the process of carrying out the burglary in Easington Lane, Sunderland, and was found in a nearby garden. His accomplice, who also jumped, got away.
A court heard that officers attended the address after reports it was being broken into at around 10pm on May 22 last year. The house already had a boarded up window after being burgled just 24 hours earlier.
