Goldilocks’ doctor beds down in old home

A MAN was escorted home by police after waking up in bed in a house he had lived in years before.

Mark Norley, an academic doctor, stumbled back to his former home in Old Church Road, Axbridge, Somerset, after a night out drinking at the weekend.

He settled into an empty bed and fell asleep.

Teenager Giles Mottram, the bed’s rightful owner, got back later and found the stranger sleeping.

Giles’s father Harry phoned the police, who woke up Mr Norley and took him to his mother’s nearby home.

From cards found in his wallet it was established that Mr Norley, 34, had lived in the Mottrams’ house seven years previously.

Harry Mottram said: “The name rang a bell. When we first moved to the house seven years ago, we continued to get letters for him. We believe he was the son of the lady who owned the property before us.”

He added: “The police said they had simply never heard of anything even remotely similar. It was like a kind of latter-day Goldilocks and The Three Bears, except the sleeping drunk had dark hair and we are not a family of woodland bears.”

Mr Norley’s mother, Margaret Audcent, of Woodlands, Axbridge, said: “He’s a research scientist and a doctor so he should know better.”