A BURGLARY victim helped snare a man dressed as a City commuter wanted for crimes throughout Kent and three other counties.

The Borough Green resident called police after spotting Londoner Robin Octavius Brown in her Tolsey Mead garden on November 17 after he had broken into her home and stolen several items.

Officers were then able to trace Brown, of Blair Street, Poplar, to the village railway station, where they found a crowbar in his briefcase.

On Friday February 19 at Gloucester Crown Court he pleaded guilty to the break-ins and was sentenced to four years in prison

Det Con Bob Baigent, of Kent Police, said: 'Anyone seeing him on the train carrying a briefcase and wearing a suit would simply have thought of him as another commuter travelling to work."

He was found guilty of two offences in Kent and eight elsewhere in the South.