CCTV thief caught in the act by his own film

A THIEF who filmed himself on a CCTV camera he was stealing was jailed for 120 days yesterday.

The camera, outside the Railway Inn in Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, was a replacement for one Anthony Gardiner of Home Park Avenue, Plymouth, had stolen from the pub just a few days earlier.

District Judge Paul Farmer said Gardiner had stolen expensive cameras from around the city which had been put in place to help prevent offences being committed.