The Long and Short of it
When a gang of burglars hatched a little plan, how were they to know their new accomplice would come up short.
Employing a dwarf/little person/midget (I don’t know which is politically correct anymore) to climb through small holes in derelict buildings to steal scrap metals may sound clever, but these guys need to stop thinking so small.
22-year-old Lee Kildare got a bit drunk on one of their raids in Newcastle and when police turned up he new he had to give himself up.
“He helped himself through the hole and was arrested. He was very drunk and said if the police hadn’t arrived he would have stolen the copper.
“When asked about the scrap metal lying around the house, he couldn’t remember anything about it but said he probably would have stolen that too,” prosecutor Fiona Varley told magistrates in Newcastle.
Kildare, admitted burglary and got handed a 12-month community order. He claimed local gangs exploited him.
