article_snippet: Lee Bowen returned to a house Lee Bowen had burgled overnight to apologise almost a year after the crime .
article_snippet: A burglar with a guilty conscience returned to a family's home to give a family £400 in cash and apologise for breaking into a family home while a family slept, almost a year after the crime.
article_snippet: The 'habitual criminal' had broken into the family home on New Year's Eve 2013 as they slept, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard.
highlights_snippet: Lee Bowen burgled a house on New Year's Eve 2013 as the family slept .
  
highlights_snippet: Lee Bowen returned to scene of the crime almost a year later to apologise .
  