Suspended Sentence for Xbox-Playing Intruder

Getting bored of Golden Horn and Timepiece Burgers? Finding yourselves lost when it comes to a post-lash? One Exeter resident has combatted his drunken munchies by breaking into a student home, cooking up a feast and playing on their Xbox.

In the style of last year’s “coat pocket rummager”, Mateusz Stec, of Powderham Crescent, drunkenly broke into the Union Road house in June.

Stec treated himself to a spread of pork chops and chips, washed it down with cider, a bottle of wine and a glass of Calvados, then hit the hay.

An artist’s impression of how Stec spent the night

University of Exeter students returned from their holiday to find the kitchen in disarray, their toothpaste and deodorant used and the toilet left unflushed. Mr Gordon Richings, prosecuting, commented that Stec had ‘made himself at home but effectively ransacked the place’.

The unwelcome lodger escaped with a suspended sentence after the judge learned Stec had only recently spent five weeks in prison for another offence.