Thief took a woman, 22, on a date so his friend could steal her TV and laptop while she was out with him | Mail Online

A man who persuaded a young woman to let him take her out on a date so an accomplice could burgle her home, has been jailed.

Hamza Islam, 29, courted the 22-year-old woman for weeks with texts and phone calls before she relented to a night out with him, West Midlands police said.

But when she returned to her Birmingham home, she found that her plasma-screen TV and laptop had been taken.