Burglar sticks phone between buttocks, snaps himself while handcuffed in back of prison van

Christopher Atherton, 23, hid his phone between his bum cheeks and took a selfie of himself while handcuffed in the back of a police van following an arrest for handling stolen goods.

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Atherton had burgled the home of a 78-year-old woman in Wigan, and broken into three small businesses in St Helens and After the footage was found, he confessed and has now been jailed for 21 months.

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Examination of the phone showed him burgling a hairdressing shop, a specialist window firm and a care company from which he stole cash and stock totalling thousands of pounds between October and November last year.

Atherton, of Blackstone Avenue, St Helens, pleaded guilty to four burglaries.