A would-be-burglar who managed to get stuck, stark naked, in the chimney of the supermarket he was robbing was yesterday sentenced to two months in a Young Offenders' Institution.
Daniel Davies, 20, was found by firefighters after a delivery driver heard someone shouting 'help me' from the chimney stack of the Tesco Express store on Ormskirk Road, Wigan, in October last year.
Davies told police that he had been on the roof trying to escape drug dealers he had seen and owed money to, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Harry Pepper, prosecuting, told the court unemployed Davies of Smethurst Lane, Wigan, said he 'fell' into the chimney and it appeared his clothes came off as he tried to wriggle free.
He was freed by firefighters who used lump hammers to dismantle the chimney breast on the first floor of the building which was the site of 'disused offices,' Mr Pepper told the court.
Passing sentence, Judge Bruce Macmillan noted that: 'Were this matter not so serious the facts would be decidedly comic.'
Judge Macmillan said Davies gave an 'unbelievable explanation' of why he was on the roof. He added that he hoped the 'singularly inept attempt' would deter Davies from further similar crimes.
'In the circumstances I think the appropriate sentence is two months in a Young Offenders' Institution,' he added.
But Judge Macmillan said as Davies had served 62 days on an electronic tag, 31 days would count towards today's sentence and it should result in his 'immediate release' as he had served the sufficient time for the offence.
Under section 240 A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 a person who wears an electronic tag for nine hours a day serves the equivalent of half a day in prison
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