Britain's daftest thief has been caught on film climbing a ladder to burgle the home - of a CCTV engineer. The dozy crook broke into the property in broad daylight after propping a ladder he found in the garden against a wall and slipping through an open bathroom window. But the shameless fugitive's every move was captured on clear footage from the home surveilance system of victim Paul Selvester, 37, who works as a CCTV engineer. The crystal clear footage has now been passed to police who are appealing for the public to come forward and identify him. He was disturbed when Paul's wife Trudy, 36, returned home from a dog walk prompting the bumbling burglar to make a hasty retreat. He is said to have scarpered into an adjoining bedroom and leapt from a first-floor window, narrowly avoiding concrete steps below, before escaping through a neighbour's garden.