A burglar has been jailed for snatching a five-year-old girl from her bed before claiming to cops he was trying to nick cannabis plants.
Leejay Carter, 38, was locked up for five years after botching the burglary last August. Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how the girl was scooped from her bed and put onto a flat roof before Carter jumped from the window after her.
Birmingham Mail told how he then picked the screaming child up and jumped almost 8ft to the ground and before dumping her in a nearby alleyway.
Jonathan Coode, defending, said Cater believed there had been a cannabis crop inside the property which he had intended to steal.
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