Burglar caught after getting stuck in window

A homeowner got a shock when he found a man stuck in his bathroom window when he got up, the burglar had attempted tried to break into the house at 2am, while the owner was asleep, however he had managed to get himself stuck and was unable to get out, before the owner got up. He was left with his bottom and legs dangling outside the ground floor window for almost six hours, before the owner called Police, ambulance and fire crews to get him out. It took two fire engines with ten firefighters to free him using a ladder to support the man’s legs as bolt-cutters sliced through the window frame.

Many local neighbors gathered to watch with amusement as events unfolded with one resident saying: “It was hilarious. All of the neighbours came outside to take a look at his legs and backside sticking out of the window.  He must have felt a right idiot. Most people wanted him to be left there. There is one neighbour who is a surgeon, and he told the emergency services he’d be able to get the burglar out without damaging the window. But they politely declined, saying they would rather get him out in one piece.”

The man was finally freed after 30 minutes, losing his tracksuit top in the process, then cuffed and led to a waiting ambulance where he was checked by paramedics then after he was given the all clear he was taken away in a police van.

A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said: “At 7.30am we were called to reports of a male found stuck in a downstairs window at a house in Tomlins Grove, Bow. It appears the resident had come down and found the man. He was stuck half in, half out. The man was eventually freed by London Fire Brigade who apparently removed the window frame. The man was left sore but otherwise uninjured. He did not require hospital treatment.”

A statement from Scotland Yard said that unemployed Paul Joseph Keenan, 36, of Rounton Road, Bow, had been charged with burglary. He will appear before Thames Magistrates’ Court today.

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