DOZY raider Mark Smith proved he was as thick as thieves when he fell sound asleep under his victim's bed.
He thief gems from a jewellery box and signed checkbook by himself, and he drank too much vodka intoxication.
When stunned Mrs Stephenson came upstairs, she found Smith fast asleep under her bed.She then informed the police.Police were called and found Smith still asleep under the bed. They could not get any response either when they tried to take him.Officers found evidence that he had stolen wearing a rucksack and still clutching a stolen pair of gold earrings in his hand.
Attorney told the court. Smith, 24, of Wark Avenue, North Shields, was jailed for 18 months after admitting burgling the house in Whitley Bay and a neighbouring property earlier the same morning.