Cat flap raider nailed by his DNA

A bungling burglar was caught after he cut himself while breaking into a house through a cat-flap, a court heard. Omar Routledge, 47, bored a large hole around the family pet’s entry point but he injured his hand and left his blood at the scene. Police obtained a DNA match and arrested Routledge but claimed he had hopped over a fence to sleep in the garden shed in Surrey Grove, Sutton, after a row with his girlfiend. District Judge Nigel…

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