Postie pushed off ladder trying to climb into woman’s bedroom to steal knickers

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A postman who dressed up like the man from the Milk Tray adverts to steal women’s knickers has been jailed.

Glen Holden, 58, was caught by two of his victims, including one who pushed him off a ladder as he tried to get into her bedroom.

Dressed in SAS-style clothing and a beanie hat with a head torch on top, he partially entered through her first floor window.

When she knocked him to the floor broke his foot, but managed to hobble to his car and drive off. He was arrested five days later.

In another incident, a woman was woken up at 1.30am and found the window in a spare bedroom was open and items had been disturbed.

Before he was jailed for 16 months, his victims told him that Holden, from Sherborne, Dorset, had betrayed their trust.

The first had known him for 10 years. She said: ‘I always thought of Glen as an honest, reliable, and happy man. I am just incredulous.’

Prosecutor Althea Brooks said: ‘His intention was to take underwear – he had a compulsion to take underwear for sexual gratification.’

The court also heard how Holden used to take women’s underwear from washing lines outside.

Upon his arrest, the prosecution said he admitted to the offences, saying he was ‘acting out of myself’.

Holden was described in court as having a ‘compulsive desire’ to steal underwear but didn’t believe anybody was at home when he targeted the properties.

Judge Fuller said: ‘You took the deliberate decision to escalate the means to achieve your aims.

‘You were fully aware of the seriousness and consequences of breaking into properties at night.’

A Royal Mail spokesperson said Holden no longer works for the company.