'Home Alone' burglar Muhedur Khan falls over as he breaks off door handle - before being arrested and jailed
A 'Home Alone' style burglar who got instant karma by being thwarted by a door handle has been jailed.
Dopey crook Muhedur Khan, 45, of no fixed abode, was caught on CCTV attempting to break in to a property in the early hours of December 4.
However, as he pulled down on the handle, to try and force the door open, the handle broke off, causing him to stumble backwards.
Earlier that day, at around 1.30am, Khan was seen breaking into another window nearby. After entering the property in the City of London, he took off one shoe and two socks from the same foot.
Footage recorded a few minutes later then shows Khan carrying a large bag and taking the socks off his hands, which he used thinking they would cover up any fingerprints. But what he did not realise was that he had been caught on camera.
Khan stole five laptops, seven iPhones and five iPads, with an estimated value of £5,500.
He was arrested the next day, and sentenced to 12 months for burglary and 12 months for attempted burglary which will run concurrently.
Sergeant James Wood, of the Proactive Acquisitive Crime Team at the City of London Police, said: “Burglary has a significant impact on businesses and residential communities especially at Christmas.
“We will attend all reports of break ins in the city, giving us the best chance of making an arrest and collecting evidence from a scene.
“We will always take this type of criminality seriously and thoroughly investigate all evidential leads, including forensics, to bring those perpetrators to justice.”