WORST BURGLAR: ‘It wasn’t Sherlock Holmes who solved this’
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IF YOU are creeping around doing something you shouldn't be doing, the number one rule is to not get caught.
Many a mystery has been solved by matching finger prints and analysing even the grainiest CCTV footage - but with one particular whodunit police in Gatton got a lucky break.
On January 5, about 2.30am, a 53-year-old Fernvale man allegedly forced open the door to a tyre shop in Gatton.
The offender entered the shop's office and stole a sum of money - an amount Gatton Police Station officer-in-charge senior sergeant Rowland Browne said "would not change your life".
The offender's actions were recorded on CCTV, which showed a man moving through the office, searching it.
If the CCTV footage wasn't enough to help link the man to the deed, the offender left behind something he would have a hard time explaining his way out of.
"He left behind ID - a medical script," Sen-sgt Browne said.
"It wasn't Sherlock Holmes who solved this - it would have been easier if he had just gone to the police station and turned himself in but we can't have everything."
Police caught up with the man within a couple of days and served him a notice to attend court.
He will be appearing in Gatton Magistrates Court on February 3.
