A burglar was brought to justice after his housemate in Carlisle conducted his own impromptu investigation.

Grant Michael Cleminson, 25, who had carried out a raid on the Brucciani's Newsagents in Scotch Street, Carlisle, took some of the goods he stole back to his home address.

They included vapes, knives, and sweets of various kinds.

The intruder had smashed a window to get into the shop. When Cleminson got home, his housemate noticed he had cuts on his knuckles.

The man also noticed that various goods - all of them from the burglary - had appeared in the house. Cleminson even at one point offered him a free vaporiser.

Later that day, the housemate described the items he had seen to staff at Brucciani's Newsagents and they agreed they sounded like the goods which had been stolen.

The following morning, said prosecutor Pamela Fee, the housemate reported the matter to the police.

The man also found a mystery mountain bike hidden in the cupboard under the stairs at the house he shared with the defendant - and he reported this also to the police.

Cleminson, who had just been released from custody, was immediately arrested for that offence too.

At the city's Rickergate magistrates court, appearing by a video link from Durham Prison, the defendant admitted both the burglary and handling the stolen bike.

He took the bike on the same morning he carried out the burglary. When police quizzed him about it, he made no comment.

District Judge Gerald Chalk told the defendant he will get credit for his guilty pleas but he sent the case to Carlisle Crown Court, where Cleminson will be sentenced today for both offences.

A second man jointly accused of the burglary with the defendant, Jamie Lee Greenwood, 19, of Close Street, Carlisle, did not appear at court. An arrest warrant was issued.

Cleminson, who is of no fixed abode, was remanded in custody.