Jailed: The Goldilocks burglar who decided a child's bed was 'just right' for a nap

by Babel-Fish | August 22, 2008 at 10:31 pm

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Oh how I love this fairy tale, but the guys got porridge now, what a nut case falling to sleep on the job. Any way his punishment is a hard bed in small cell. Can you imagine what his cell mates will say and now that embarising nick name Goldilocks.

There was no porridge on the table and he didn't manage to break any chairs.

But otherwise, burglar Tommy Gill was a perfect Goldilocks.

After breaking into a house while the family were away, the 27-year-old raider was found slumbering in one of the children's beds surrounded by his hoard of stolen goods.

Yesterday, he was jailed for two years at Portsmouth Crown Court.

Judge Ian Pearson heard that Gill had ransacked the house, in Fratton, where a mother lived with her 12-year-old son and ten-year-old daughter.

He picked up a rucksack and put a new Xbox console and games into it.

Gill, of North End, Portsmouth, also raided the boy's money box, which contained £120 he had saved up for his holiday.

He stuffed the cash down his trousers, went upstairs and promptly fell asleep.

When the family arrived home at around 11pm on July 27, they found Gill in one of the bedrooms.