Crime never pays especially if its planned badly.
The startled robber fled—but not before the homeowner caught a glimpse, revealed as he bent over, of his strange underpants. The quirky boxers would prove the thief’s undoing.
Darren Machon, 39, was already wanted by police and arrested after a car chase in the town centre later that day. The suspect was changing his clothes in the holding cell when one of the officers noticed his undies, adorned with cartoon graphics of burgers, doughnuts and fries; the same fastfood medley the burglary victim had described her intruder as wearing. Machon’s ‘novelty underpants’ were held up as evidence against him in Cardiff Crown Court last August. He was sentenced to two years and 10 months for burglary and dangerous driving.
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