This is the bizarre moment a Thai crook carried out a bungled gold shop robbery after trying to disguise himself as a ''beautiful Western man''.

Wongsakorn Petchsanan, 30, paid 15,000 Thai baht (360GBP) to have a silicone nose fitted, blue contact lenses, skin whitening, hair cut, eye lid darkening and a fake beard on December 2.

The next morning at 10am, he walked into a gold shop in Nonthaburi, on the outskirts of Bangkok, and asked to view gold necklaces worth a total of 480,000Thai baht (11,500GBP).

CCTV shows how the thief's Mission Impossible style plan was almost successful when moments later he grabbed the gold, turned on his heels and fled from the shop.

But the disguise - intended to hamper efforts to identify him on CCTV - proved pointless as he was rugby tackled by security guards outside the shopping mall when he tried to flag down a motorcycle taxi as a getaway vehicle.

Wongsakorn was forced into a humiliating crime re-enactemnt later that day - still sporting his ridiculous disguise - before confessing to police that he had carried out the gold jewellery theft.

The thief said: ''I used to work at a beauty salon. I thought that if I could look like a foreigner I would not be caught. Once I had the gold in my hand I ran away.''

Police said that Wongsakorn had ran away with four gold chains each worth 100,000 baht (2,400GBP) as well as two necklaces each worth 40,000 baht (960GBP). The total value was 480,000 Thai baht (11,541GBP). They were found stuffed in his shoulder bag.


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