Thief uses head as battering ram

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A burglar used his head to smash through a plate glass door at a school before stealing a £2,500 television.

CCTV footage shows the ram-raider running head-first through the glass before returning with the 42-inch plasma screen.

Staff at Walbottle Technology College in Newcastle say the thief, who appeared uninjured, was lucky not to kill himself.

Police said people usually threw things to break windows.

College head Mike Booth said the intruder was lucky the shards of glass had fallen to the floor after fragmenting.

He said: "The glass could have cut his throat.

It's just a weird incident and I can't understand why he has done this Pc Gary White

"If it had been toughened glass he could have broken his neck and if it had been older glass it would have cracked and become jagged and he could have severed an artery.

"He was lucky, but it would have been his own fault if he had been hurt."

Pc Gary White, of Northumbria Police, said he had never heard of a burglar using this technique to enter a building.

"Usually people throw things through or break a window and climb through.

"It's just a weird incident and I can't understand why he has done this."

The Hitachi television had been hanging from a wall in the reception of the college.

The break-in occurred at the end of February.