Beijing burglar makes his bed and sleeps in it

SHANGHAI, March 27 (Reuters) A Beijing worker who broke into luxury villas to steal property and get a good night's sleep has been jailed for a year, state media reported today.

The court heard that Ye, a migrant worker, broke into five villas ''out of curiosity'', took showers, tried on clothes and slept in beds -- even when the householders were at home, the Shanghai Daily said.

When Ye found a woman sleeping in the house on his third break-in, he took a carton of milk from the fridge and went to bed on a separate floor, the paper said.

''The woman went to work the next morning, but Ye stayed on.

She returned in the evening. When she was on the first floor, Ye went to the second floor, and vice versa,'' the paper said.

Ye was eventually caught at his fifth villa when the owner came home at 2 am and called the police, having found a bathed and clean-shirted man watching his TV, the paper said.

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