Crying burglar's bizarre 'ruse' when he's cornered by cops in house goes completely wrong

A career criminal brought on the crocodile tears to try and fool cops who were arresting him for burglary - before he was tasered after trying to run away. 'Habitual' burglar Sean Gavin, 29, was caught when his victim was alerted by her phone that her house had been broken into whilst she was at work.

The police were called and found Gavin and a teenager had broken into the Rochdale house via the patio doors before ransacking it.

In body cam footage played to Minshull Street Crown Court, the two officers made their way to the garage armed with tasers, where they found the two males cowering in the corner.

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Gavin began to cry and apologise, saying he was ‘sorry for what he did’. This was a ‘ruse’ as he pushed past both officers in an attempt to run away, prosecutors said.

However, he was quickly brought down as one of the officers deployed a taser, and arrested him. Gavin was jailed today (August 3) for four years after admitting burglary.

Prosecuting, Justin Hayhoe said the victim went to work on June 17 this year, leaving her gated house on Bury New Road protected by security cameras and an alarm system. Whilst she was at work she received a notification that the alarm system had been activated.

“Looking to the CCTV cameras inside the house, she could hear male voices and banging, and immediately contacted the police,” Mr Hayhoe said.

“Police officers arrived and went to the rear of the property and discovered they had entered through the patio door as the lock was forced.”

In finding Gavin in the garage, the officers told him to get on the ground but he began to try and persuade them that he was ‘sorry and remorseful for what he did’,