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February 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Tara Brady
Last updated at 4:15 PM on 5th February 2012
This is the moment a brazen window cleaner was caught red-handed stealing a credit card from one of his customers while on his round.
Thieving Leighton Cuthbert swung from his ladder and leaned into an open bedroom window at Adrian Neal’s home in Telford to grab a credit card – which he used on a £150 spending spree.
But the whole episode was caught on camera by a vigilant neighbour, who grew suspicious of the 30-year-old and the time it was taking him to clean three panes of glass.
Unbeknown to the thief, Andrew Mitchell, who lives opposite, was watching while he worked from home.
Cleaning-up: Leighton Cuthbert leans into Adrian Neal’s open bedroom window to steal a credit card
Brazen: Leighton Cuthbert looks back but didn’t realise he was being filmed by neighbour Andrew Mitchell
As the job dragged on, he took out his mobile phone and started recording the whole burglary after becoming suspicious about the window cleaner’s activity.
Mr Neal, who works for aerospace firm Goodrich, which is based in Fordhouses, Wolverhampton, cancelled his credit card but not before Cuthbert made £150 of purchases including £42 at Domino’s Pizza and topping up his phone.
Shrewsbury Crown Court heard that Cuthbert called at the home of Mr Neal, 57, in Trevithick Close, Woodside, Telford, last August to clean his windows.
Cuthbert, of Mullinder Drive, Ketley Bank, Telford, was jailed on Friday for 14 months after pleading guilty to one charge of burglary and five charges of fraud on August 26.
Janet Pitt-Lewis, defending, claimed Cuthbert stole the card to help feed his family.
‘My client and his family were having acute problems with their benefits,’ she said.
Caught: Adrian Neal outside his home with neighbour Andrew Mitchell holding the phone on which he filmed window cleaner Leighton Cuthber stealing a credit card
After the hearing, Mr Neal said: ‘I thought it was the window cleaner but I could not prove it until my neighbour came out and said he had the video.’
Mr Mitchell, 57, a senior distributor for cleaning agents Kleeneze, said: ‘He was a chancer because the windows were slightly open.
‘It took him 20 times longer to clean the window than it should have done, which I thought was a bit strange so I started recording the whole movements. I work from home so I keep my eyes and ears open for everybody.
‘It was not until afterwards that I realised what I had captured. I knew he was suspicious but I didn’t know what he was actually doing.’
It wasn’t until Mr Neal got back from holiday, when he mentioned his credit card had been used, that Mr Mitchell put two and two together.
‘When I watched it back it became quite clear what he doing,’ he added.
‘You could see it in great detail. He goes about it quite brazenly and was up and down the ladder like a yo-yo.
‘The police could not believe how stupid he was.’
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We must live in hope this does not give police the notion of abandoning everything to good neighbours.
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A bit foolsh going on holiday and leaving a window unlocked/open.
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Definitely not watching his back LOL
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Terrible person. Lots of people have their benefits cut-off and have to live-off nothing – they don’t go around thieving and then use it as an excuse. Daily Mail – for goodness’, sake, why does it always have to be a “spending spree”? Give the childish cliches a rest, will you?
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It’s the norm now: you HAVE to close your windows; you HAVE to lock your bike; you HAVE to conceal your keys, credit card and wallet. You HAVE to put valuables out of sight in the boot of your car; you HAVE to shield your pin no: you HAVE to have locking wheel-nuts and you HAVE to closely vet e-mails. You HAVE to have a locking petrol-cap; you HAVE to ensure wheel-clampers don’t operate in this area and you HAVE TO SCREW EVERYTHING DOWN TO PREVENT ONE OF NU-LAB’S FERAL SCUMBAGS NICKING IT!!
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he was having acute problems with his benefits???? If he is a window cleaner should he not be on benefits? Or was he committing benefit fraud as well?
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feed the family with best pizzas money can buy? IF the solicitor is defending this burgular with this excuse then how stupid is both the burgular and the solicitor? thats one burgular off the streets, job well done
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So Cuthbert, according to his solicitor, was having acute problems with his benefits………..does that mean he was claiming while working on the fly as a window cleaner? Certainly doesn’t make it right to steal something that doesn’t belong to him. Fed up with these sob stories about pathetic people that commit crimes and then make excuses for their actions. He is in the right place, just a shame his sentence wasn’t a lot more severe.
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How did he get the PIN? If Mr Neil left the PIN written down with the card that is the equivalent of leaving cash on a windowsill with the window open? He had better watch out that he does not leave a laptop on the back seat of an unlocked car.
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Mr Cuthbert has not only lost his freedom , Mr Cuthbert has lost 2 customers as well .
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