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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.

Matthew Douglas mugshot
Matthew Douglas was jailed for more than three years (Cambridgeshire Police/PA)

Cambridgeshire Police identified Douglas and he was arrested by the force.

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.

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