‘There’s a burglar in my loft’

A serial burglar who was caught hiding in a loft after ransacking a property was jailed for three years. Stephen Liddell, 38, was found by police covered in mud after clambering up into the attic of a house in Gillingham, Kent on 14 September last year. A neighbour alerted the police at midnight after hearing Liddell smash glass inside the property. He ‘flung’ sofas upside down and smashed glass items inside the house. Liddell appeared at Inner London Crown Court…