A burglar has been jailed after he was discovered sleeping on a sofa inside the home of a family he was trying to steal from.
Scott Tinsley was found snoring on the settee after breaking into the house in Stoke-on-Trent in the early hours of the morning.
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard how the 38-year-old from Cobridge, Staffordshire, had already taken electrical goods from the house and piled them up in the garden.
He then returned to the house to get something to eat and drink but fell asleep on the sofa after taking drugs, leaving the gas turned on.
Tinsley wasn't discovered until the next morning at 7.30am when he was found asleep in the front room.
The court was told how the raid last November was supposed to be a quick burglary for easy money to sell on electrical goods.
But the unnamed mother at the house alerted police after finding him snoring in their living room.
Prosecutor Neil Ahuja said: 'She was particularly concerned as her three children were asleep upstairs.
'She alerted her husband and they woke the defendant up. He tried to leave but was detained by the husband.
'Various valuables had been removed from the front room and taken outside, including the television, games console and CD player.
'They were found by police in a back garden two doors further down.'
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