Burglar 'too good' for crime

A veteran Austrian burglar was acquitted after a court agreed he was too experienced to have committed the crime was accused of.

Roland Friis, Stummer's lawyer, said: "He is experienced enough to never break into a building secured by an alarm."

"Also, no halfway reasonable burglar would use such needle nose pliers for a job, and my client would have surely worn gloves. In fact it is almost an insult to accuse him of such a dilettante approach."