Burglar caught by fingerprint on Yoda tin
Police identified the intruder from the item left at the crime scene and he was jailed after admitting burglary.
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A burglar was caught and jailed after he left a fingerprint on a tin depicting Star Wars character Yoda.
Matthew Douglas, 28, stole electrical equipment and a briefcase from a flat in Huntingdon, but dropped the tin he tried to steal as a man chased him out of the property on June 2.
Douglas, of Huntingdon, admitted two counts of burglary, one of theft from a motor vehicle and two of theft from a shop, police said.
He was sentenced on Tuesday at Peterborough Crown Court to three years and two months in prison.
