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Hungry Blackburn burglar left false teeth at the scene
9:48am Monday 19th July 2010
POLICE caught a hungry burglar after he left his false teeth at the scene of the crime.
Blackburn magistrates heard the gnashers were sent for DNA testing but before the results came back an officer saw ex-boxer Jimmy Lee without his top set and put two and two together.
Lee, 43, of Oakenhurst Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to burglary at Khonat’s Newsagents and burglary at a factory on Limbrick and was jailed for a total of 32 weeks.
Liz Parker, defending, said Lee, a chronic alcoholic, had broken into the shop intending to get his head down for a few hours.
“He was hungry and took his false teeth out and put them on a table before eating a beef butty,” said Mrs Parker.
“He left without his teeth and when he sobered up he wondered where they were.”
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