Bungling Burglarly Suspect Gets Stuck in Hole

Two British brothers were nabbed for burglary when one of the rotund robbers got stuck trying to break into a department store through a tiny hole in the wall, according to reports.

UK police arrested Clive and Kelvin Webster after older brother Clive got himself stuck trying to fit his 238-pound frame through a 2-foot hole in the side of a department store, the North Devon Journal reported.

Clive had used a screwdriver, a crowbar and a hammer to knock the small hole though the side wall of the store in what his own defensive attorney later called "a wholly incompetent attempt at a burglary," reported SWNS.com .

"In fact, were there a school of burglary this example might be given to students on the first day to demonstrate what not to do," Clive Webster's defense attorney, Tim Hook, told the North Devon Magistrates' Court, explain that the hole was just six feet away from the burglar alarm.

Clive's noisy attempts to free himself from the wall resulted in a 1 a.m. emergency call to police. Officers soon found Clive, 30, and his younger brother Kelvin, 25, hiding behind a nearby wall. A ladder was found leaning against the wall leading to the hole.

Officers say Clive was "covered" in brick dust from his fruitless attempts to force his way into the store and out of the hole.

Defense attorneys later claimed both brothers suffered from mental health problems, and had attempted the break-in to provide financial support for Clive Webster's five children, the North Devon Journal reported.

"It was an inevitably doomed enterprise," said Kelvin's attorney, Laurence Overand. "Nothing was taken and even if they had gained entry, there was limited stock in the room they would have accessed."

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