A cereal offender caught

A DOZY burglar was caught after she left a trail of CORNFLAKES from the scene of crime.
Amber McCarthy, 31, accidentally scattered the cereal after stealing cash from a florist’s till.

Cops followed the 300-yard trail to her hotel in Bexhill, East Sussex.

They found cash and flowers in her room, Hove Crown Court heard.

McCarthy, of Eastbourne, had grabbed the cereal from the hotel’s bar. She admitted the burglary and three others and got a three-year supervision order.

A police source said: “Everyone’s having a bit of a chuckle over it.”