The game was up for a would-be cat burglar after he was filmed coming face toface with a real life cat while he prowled the outside of the house he wasabout to break into.
In a video released by Nottinghamshire Police, the“feline” suspicious moggy can be seen eyeballing would-be thief Mark Lawson,42, as he crawls cat-like on all fours around the Priory Road house in WestBridgford.
After creeping around the rear of the property on his hands andknees, Lawson can be seen coming face to face with the family pet, who peeredat him through a glass door.
Unbeknown to him, however, he was also beingwatched by the homeowner, who had already called the police after beingalerted to the “purr-plexing” behaviour of the intruder by a mobile phone app.The incident happened just after 6.30am on Mach 16 this year.