Town takeaway raider who wore boxer shorts as makeshift mask snared by police

MAN WITH OVER 100 PREVIOUS OFFENCES ALSO CAUSED 'MASSIVE MESS' AT CHARITY

- By MARK NAYLOR

A DRUG-addicted burglar with a huge list of more than 100 previous offences shamelessly tried to disguise his identity during a Valentine's Day raid on a takeaway shop - by wearing a pair of floppy underpants over his face.

But what he thought was a clever and cunning plan to fool the police - by wearing the ill-fitting dark boxer shorts as a makeshift mask - badly backfired when an eagle-eyed police officer recognised him anyway from CCTV pictures. He was even wearing some shoes that had been given to him by the police just hours earlier, Hull Crown Court heard.

Daniel Shaun Kelly, 43, of Ilkeston Avenue, Goole, admitted two offences of burglary and breaching a one-year suspended prison sentence imposed on December 15, 2023.

Harry Bradford, prosecuting, said that, at 8.25am on February 14, the boss of a takeaway business in Goole arrived at his shop. He walked through the public seating area towards the food preparation area when he noticed that cabling from his CCTV equipment was on the floor.