Undone by their own stupidity

arlier this trail of evidence” away Williams, right into forensics’ hands leaving paperwork prescrip

medication his name near raided. He also didn’t help criminal cause by the scene.

While officers the aftermath of Wells break-in,

suddenly walking nearby matched a on his CCTVV. It was Williamss, and he was also carrying baag containing a laptop and otherr items which linked him to anotther victim in the same road.

He was later jailed for 16 months after pleaading guilty to three burglaries.

In 2013, four ragging robbers from Chathham who set up a Blackberryy Messenger group called ‘ med Robbers’ and filmed selfiess posing with a handgun were jailed for a total of more thhan 40 years.

One ev n donned pyjama bottoms with cartoon sheep on during a raid, and kept a - ture of himself on his phone wearinng the same trousers.

However, an atttempted robbery at a champioon dog breeder’s home was foiiled when the breeders’ daughtter refused to

in to what were described by the judge as their “cowardly demands”.

On more than onne occasion she batted a pistol ay when it was pointed close her head, and she was recognisedd for her bravery and awarded £250.

Jailing the four robbers, Judge David Griffith-Joones QC said they had carried out their raids with a “somewhatt cavalier attitude” and in “amateurish fashion”.

In particular, he said, the attempted robberry in Lincolnshire would havee been “comical” if it had not beeen so serious an offence.

A life of crime can be work, and in 2015 offender was arrested for

at an Otham after stopping for squash at the scene

Hapless John thirsty

Red-faced Ricky Hodgkins is seen falling on his face before swiftly dusting himself off to continue the raid in March, before police officers arrived to find the 40-year-old on the station grounds with an armful of beer.

Despite bleeding from his wrists and knee, the clumsy crook claimed he had bought the booze from Tesco and injured in a fight earlier in the day.

But he slipped up when he asked officers to get his carrier bag from inside the café. It was found behind a refrigerator below the broken window. He later admitted burglary while he was in hospital being treated for his injuries.

In 2016 a dozy burglar broke into a restaurant in Maidstone and liked it so much he decided

night

Charles Traverso.

But he was in for a rude awakening after the bboss, Alex Buckwell, arrived with two staff members and foufound him fast asleep.

The 36- year- old intruder grabbed a screwdriver he had used for the break-in and struck out at one of them, but ended up injuring himself when detained.

Burglar Terry Williams

Yahyaoui, of Parsonage Close, Tunbridge Wells, was later jailed for two years after admitting two burglaries and assault.

In 2018 a prolific thief caught with tights on his head following a raid on a shop told police he was wearing them to keep warm.

Charles Traverso, of no fixed address, admitted stealing

money, alcohol and cigarettes after forcing a lock to break into the convenience store on Union Street in Maidstone.

He was arrested in the garden of a neighbouring property, wearing gloves, tights on his head, a hat and a hood.

Traverso was under a supervision order for a previous burglary at the time.

Picture: Kent Police A CCTV image of one of the robbers wearing the pyjamas

Charles Traverso was caught by police with tights on his head