Not very successful cat burglar fell head-first from first floor window

A would-be cat burglar plunged to the ground after diving head-first through a first floor bedroom window. Stuart Marsden, 48, had earlier been captured on CCTV shimmying up a drainpipe to climb into the home of 85-year-old Jean West in Blackburn, Lancashire, which he believed was empty.



But the grandmother-of-eight had visitors and when her son-in-law Neil Morrison heard a strange noise he went outside to investigate. Seeing Marsdens legs disappear through the window Mr Morrison ran upstairs where he tried to apprehend the burglar who struggled out of his grasp.

As he climbed back out of the window, Mr Morrison again tried to grab Marsden only to be kicked in the face. Marsden then fell head first onto a porch roof before landing on the ground. He is then seen limping as he runs away.


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Widow Mrs West, a mother-of-five, said: “I am surprised he survived the fall going out of that window head first like that. It is a real drop. If I had been on my own I honestly think the shock would have killed me.” Marsden of Blackburn pleaded guilty to burglary with intent to steal. He was jailed for 28 months