Source: United Kingdom London Metropolitan Police
Two men have pleaded guilty to burgling a Camden restaurant after police arrested them outside the venue trying, and failing, to open entirely empty cash registers.
Detective Constable Michelle Andersen, the Islington based CID officer who led the investigation, said: “Officers were very quick to get to the scene of the burglary, and were able to arrest both suspects before they could make off.
“But even before police arrived on scene, their criminal plan wasn’t going well. CCTV shows them trying and failing to open the drawers of the cash registers. But even if they had have managed that, they’d have found them to be completely empty.”
At around 06:00hrs on Saturday, 25 January, police responded to an alert from London Borough of Camden CCTV operators to a break-in at a restaurant in Camden High Street.
Officers arrived a short time later. Paul Haughey, 40, (03/09/1984) of Camden Road, NW1 and Jayvan Burton, 41, (19/10/1983) of no fixed address but from the Camden area, were caught red-handed.
Both men were charged with non-residential burglary for stealing the empty tills, to which they pleaded guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 27 January.
Haughey will be sentenced at the same court on 18 February. A date is yet to be arranged for Burton’s sentencing at Wood Green Crown Court.