Kaylee McIntyre duped officers into believing she was staying at a friend's house across the road when she was actually burgling her neighbour's flat in Gateshead, Newcastle Crown Court heard Kaylee McIntyre, who admitted burglary (Image: Northumbria Police)

A woman caught red-handed burgling her neighbour's home managed to fool police into thinking it was her mate's place and was allowed to carry on ransacking it. Kaylee McIntyre had been going back and forth to the woman's flat in Gateshead when officers turned up to check on an earlier incident.

After spinning them a web of lies about her activities, the audacious McIntyre resumed her crime spree once they departed, breaking into the other woman's home five times and making off with items valued at over £1,000.

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