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Beans means jail term for burglar

A burglar has been jailed after helping himself to a tin of beans and sausages during a break-in and leaving his fingerprints all over the empty tin.

The BBC reports that Andrew Nolan tucked into the Heinz snack while burgling a property in North Shields. He escaped with a haul worth hundreds of pounds, but police later tracked him down through his prints, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

Det Con Nick Lawrence, of North Shields CID, said: “Taking and eating the tin of beans directly led to this young man being caught by the police. You could say his hunger cost him his liberty.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .