Cross-dressing burglar sentenced

A THIEF who got caught in the burglar bars of his victim’s bedroom window will be clutching at the bars of his prison cell for the next year.

Errol Mbewa (25) of Walvis Bay was yesterday sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by Magistrate Gibson Imbili, when he appeared in court on a charge of housebreaking. Mbewa provided some comic relief in crime headlines when he attempted to enter the house of Peter Kubirske at Swakopmund through the bedroom window in the early morning hours of May 3.Kubirske woke to find what appeared to be a woman with long hair, dressed in white, dangling from the security bars with half her body inside the room and half out.When the burglar started to plead for help, Kubirske discovered that his early-morning visitor was in fact a man dressed as a woman.Kubirske called the Police, who freed and arrested Mbewa.Mbewa pleaded guilty at his previous appearance.Mbewa provided some comic relief in crime headlines when he attempted to enter the house of Peter Kubirske at Swakopmund through the bedroom window in the early morning hours of May 3.Kubirske woke to find what appeared to be a woman with long hair, dressed in white, dangling from the security bars with half her body inside the room and half out.When the burglar started to plead for help, Kubirske discovered that his early-morning visitor was in fact a man dressed as a woman.Kubirske called the Police, who freed and arrested Mbewa.Mbewa pleaded guilty at his previous appearance.

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