A gran’s CCTV inadvertently framed her grandson for theft, a court heard.
It captured Matthew Herron, 21, wheeling a stolen bike into her Gateshead home on Tuesday, September 28.
The footage also showed Herron wearing the same hoodie top worn by the thief who took the bicycle from an address in Stewartsfield, Rowlands Gill.
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Three days earlier, Herron, of Beach Road, South Shields, had stolen a TV from a house he had burgled in Stirling Lane, also Rowlands Gill.
Herron pleaded guilty to two charges - burglary of a dwelling and theft, and theft of a pedal cycle.
He did not enter pleas to two charges of attempted burglary of a dwelling with intent to steal, both in Gateshead on September 28.
Prosecutor Becky Slade told South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court : “He has taken the bike from a rear garden.
“CCTV in his grandmother’s house shows him with an Apollo bike.
“He also had on a hoodie top he was seen in when committing the offence.”
Magistrates sent Herron to be sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court on Thursday, November 25.
He was granted bail on condition he abides by a doorstep 9pm to 7am curfew.
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