Burglar out cold after walking into post

 A burglar carrying £4,000 of stolen electrical goods walked into a lamppost and knocked himself out.

Terry Sawyers, 39, was found unconscious in Fenchurch Street, London, after grabbing four laptops, seven Cannon cameras, and a mobile phone from nearby offices in March. Concerned passers-by had called the police and Sawyers, who has 79 convictions, 27 for burglary, swore at officers as they drove him to hospital.

Days earlier, he had been handed a 12-month suspended sentence for burgling the Lambeth mayor’s office.

Shafiq Amin, defending, urged the judge, Sarah Munro QC, for leniency, but she jailed him for 16 months at the Old Bailey. Sawyers, from East Ham, admitted three counts of burglary.