{"id":28592,"date":"2025-04-17T22:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/28592\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:05:21","slug":"bungling-burglar-who-stole-games-console-from-bristol-home-caught-on-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/28592\/","title":{"rendered":"Bungling burglar who stole games console from Bristol home caught on camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are now seeking to identify the man after the theft last month<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/5225073548_burglary-appeal.jpg\" alt=\"Police want to identify this man in connection with a burglary in Bristol\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police want to identify this man in connection with a burglary in Bristol(Image: Avon and Somerset Police)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man who stole a games console and bank cards from a property in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/horfield\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Horfield<\/a> was caught on camera, and now police are trying to identify him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The burglary took place last month, sometime overnight between March 11 and 12, at a flat on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/filton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Filton<\/a> Avenue in Horfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The homeowner was not home at the time, and later alerted police after unauthorised transactions appeared on their account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers have carried out house-to-house, forensic, and CCTV investigations, but as of yet have been unable to identify the man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They have now released this CCTV image in an appeal to find out who he is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The suspected burglar has been described as a white man, in his 30s, wearing a dark-coloured cap, a blue hooded jacket with &#8220;fur&#8221; trim, and dark-coloured jogging bottoms and trainers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Anyone who recognises him, or has any other information about the break-in, is asked to call 101 and give the reference 5225073548.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Alternatively, contact the independent charity Crimestoppers 100 per cent anonymously by calling 0800 555 111, or through their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are now seeking to identify the man after the theft last monthPolice want to identify this man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,188,393,10300,4884,3894,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-28592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-filton","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-horfield","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114355576742345158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}