[TheDaddy]

Ian Carr had his head comfortably resting back and was loudly snoring on the settee when stunned householder Michael Kitchen got up for a drink in the early hours of November 3 and spotted him.

Newcastle Crown Court heard the 25-year-old student alerted housemate Matthew Thompson, 22, and the shocked pair contacted the police.

Carr, 29, who had crept in to flat in Heaton, Newcastle, through an unlocked patio, stayed there snoozing until the police arrived and woke him up.

Before he dozed off, he had packed up belongings ready to steal and was already wearing Mr Kitchen's jacket.

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