Hooded and wearing orange work gloves, he rose to his feet and pulled up his trousers before walking off-camera into the courtyard in front of the Abbey Deli
Police were able to match images of the tattoos to posts on White Jr’s Instagram account and identify him. He was arrested the same day following a raid on a property in Bath.
Jon Ison, 67, the owner of The Abbey Deli, told The Sun: “He broke in by smashing one of the window panes on the front door of the cafe with a champagne bottle.”
He said a charity box was taken from the counter and £250 stolen from the till, which was forced open with a spoon, despite the keys being “in plain sight”.
Mr Ison added: “He probably thought he was in the clear but when he crawled back through the window, he got his tracksuit caught on the frame and accidentally mooned his bare backside right at our CCTV cameras.
Police ‘just checked his ink on Instagram’
“Police knew straight away who it was because of his tattoos – all they had to do was check the photos of his ink on his Instagram feed to confirm their suspicions.”
White Jr admitted the offence when he appeared at Bristol magistrates’ court the day after the burglary, his 29th birthday.
Mr Ison said it was the second time White Jr had broken into the cafe, the first incident taking place almost exactly a year ago, when around £650 was stolen.
He said: “The serious side of this burglary is that this kind of theft is a massive inconvenience for businesses in the area. Not only is there the cash that’s stolen but there’s also a big loss in trade as we were forced to close to carry out repairs.”
In 2022, White Jr pleaded guilty to 14 offences of shoplifting, possessing a knife, possessing heroin, and a racially aggravated public order offence.
He was sentenced to 11 months, with 32 weeks of a previously suspended jail term to run consecutively.