Car Thief Caught After He Posted A Facebook Picture Of Himself

A car thief let his glow-in-the-dark disguise slip - by posing in it on Facebook. Christopher Murray, 25, was known as the 'green skull man' after he displayed a luminous Halloween mask to terrify his victims.

But when police found the mask dumped at the roadside following a knifepoint raid, they carried out DNA tests and trawled the social networking site for Murray's profile. Officers eventually found a picture of him posing on his profile page wearing the same mask and flicking V signs at the camera.

April 9th, Lancashire Police released the photo of Murray as he began a five year jail term.

One officer said: 'The DNA evidence was clear cut but this man will feel a prize chump for posting a picture of himself posing with his own disguise for all the world to see. 'It's an extremely distinctive mask and you would have thought he would be keen to keep it to himself - not splash it over the internet.

It just goes to show the idiotic lengths some criminal will go to to brag about their crimes.'

Det Sgt Kathryn Cussans, of Lancashire Police, said: '...We treat any attack of this nature extremely seriously and will always carry out full and thorough investigations to identify those involved and bring them to justice. 'This should send a clear message to criminals who think they can get away with committing crimes such as this, that they will be caught and will go to prison.'

Source: Daily Mail