UK Window Cleaner Filmed Stealing Credit Card

Checking that the coast is clear before leaning in

Window cleaner thief caught on film: A thieving window cleaner was caught red-handed stealing from one of his customers after a suspicious neighbour filmed him leaning through an open bedroom window. Leighton Cuthbert leaned into Adrian Neal’s home in to grab a credit card which he used on a spending spree. But the whole episode was caught on camera by a neighbour who grew suspicious of the 30-year-old and the time it was taking for him to clean three panes of glass. 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 pizzas, and topping up his phone.

Shrewsbury Crown Court was told Cuthbert called at the home of Mr Neal, 57, on Trevithick Close in Woodside, Telford, last August to clean his windows. Cuthbert, of of Mullinder Drive, Ketley Bank, Telford, was yesterday jailed for 14 months after pleading guilty to one charge of burglary and five charges of fraud on August 26. 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.” Neighbour Mr Andrew Mitchell, aged 57, who runs his own cleaning company, said: “He was a chancer because the windows were slightly open.”

Leighton Cuthbert leans in to steal a credit card.

Mr Mitchell caught a man burgling Mr Neal’s house on his mobile phone.