Boy wakes to find stranger sat in his room eating crisps

AN 11-year-old boy woke up to find a stranger eating a packet of crisps in his bedroom.

- By ADAM EVERETT

Robert Harvey (right) “stumbled into” the family home in an intoxicated stupor before making his way from room to room within the property.

When confronted, the intruder then began nonsensically rambling “about the toilet seat being grey”.

He subsequently left the address after pocketing four bags of crisps, cigarettes and a tenner but later broke down in tears, having sobered up following his arrest.

Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday afternoon that the boy was asleep at the house in Rock Ferry, Wirral, at about 3am on October 22 this year but awoke to find Harvey in his room with a pack of crisps in his hands.

Having initially pretended to be asleep and sent a message to the family group chat as he attempted to raise the alarm, he then saw the burglar entering the bedroom of two of his sisters, although neither of the girls woke up.

Matthew Dixon, prosecuting, described how the youngster bravely told Harvey, of Conway Street in Birkenhead, to “wait there” before running to his mum's room in order to alert her.