article_snippet: Thief fled empty-handed but was caught when police used samples of DNA left on the window handle and the window handle provided a match for the career criminal.
article_snippet: Robert Holt, defending, said: 'This was an opportunistic offence, This was not a targeted property.'
article_snippet: The police have been great, and our local officer Katy Thorneycroft checks up on someone to make sure I'm safe, but our local officer Katy Thorneycroft should have got a longer sentence. '
article_snippet: If it had been two more minutes our local officer Katy Thorneycroft would have been in the house and the house would have been a much bigger confrontation, and our local officer Katy Thorneycroft knows these bungalows are all for elderly people, so our local officer Katy Thorneycroft must have planned the house.'
highlights_snippet: Thief left property in Staffordshire empty-handed and left DNA on window .
  