This year has been a busy year for dumb criminals.
Many defendants under the spell of drink or drugs or perhaps plain stupid gave themselves little chance of escaping, our courts heard in 2016.
From a disability benefit claimant caught jumping about to a man who blamed his tracksuit bottoms for a crash, criminals were caught red-handed because of their own less-than-clever behaviour.
Serious offenders including robbers rubbed shoulders with those committing relatively minor offences in the...
