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Idiot burglar busted after police track DNA on spoon used to eat cheesecake at scene
Jason Stratford broke into a bar at the start of the year and started loading up on bottles of alcohol. But when a cheesecake proved to delicious to resist, he cluelessly left key evidence behind at the scene of the crime.
Jason Stratford has been jailed for 34 weeks after stealing from a struggling bar in lockdown (Image: SWNS)
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Composite image showing Jason Stratford and a cheesecake Pictures: GLOS CONSTABULARY / PEXELS A HUNGRY burglar who broke into a bar and ate a cheesecake was caught from DNA left behind on a spoon. Jason Stratford, 36, has now been jailed for 34 weeks and ordered to pay back more than £1,800 in compensation after he admitted the burglary. Homeless Stratford was said by police to have broken into a bar in Cirencester in the early hours of January 2.
Jason Stratford Picture: GLOS CONSTABULARY He took several bottles of alcohol and helped himself to a cheesecake in the bar’s kitchen. He dropped the spoon he’d used to eat the pilfered pudding.