Dozy thief caught robbing flat by family cat

A thief who broke into a flat was caught red-handed after the family cat alerted her owners. The 40-year-old man, whose name has not been revealed by police, sneaked into the ground-floor property through a window on Monday night.

While the owners slept in another room, the robber began gathering up clothes, a laptop, cell phone and other belongings into bags.

But it seems he became tired and fell sleep on top of his stolen loot, only to be discovered by the cat, called Murka, who started meowing loudly at the sight of a stranger.

The noise woke up the owners who managed to call police who arrived at the flat, in Berezovskiy, in the Kemerovo region, while the man was still sleeping soundly.

It turned out he had previous convictions for theft and while he was only charged with attempted theft, he could still receive a strict sentence of six years in prison.

Few details about the incident have been released and there are suggestions that a stray cat had followed the thief into the house and owners’ cat began meowing at him instead.