Burglar caught causing a clatter

A burglar was caught after falling over a suit of armour he’d made out of kitchen pans to protect himself from angry victims.

Ho Kan had stitched a saucepan lid to a shirt to protect his heart, he used a metal pot for a helmet, and a thick plastic chopping board to cover his groin.



But house owner Ming Shi called police to his home in Hangzhou, eastern China, after hearing the hapless housebreaker fall over his own potty protection suit with a huge clatter.

“He was wearing so many pots and pans we didn’t know whether to arrest him or ask him to cook us a meal,” said a police spokesman. Kan, 26, is now facing five years in jail for burglary.