Ashley Keast took a selfie at the scene of the crime… and send it to the homeowner’s colleagues (Picture: South Yorkshire Police)

Is this the worst burglar ever? Detectives might disagree, after he made it especially easy for them to track him down.

After Ashley Keast broke into a home in Rotherham last September, he took a selfie using a phone with a stolen SIM card and somehow managed to post it on WhatsApp, where his victim’s colleagues saw it and contacted police.

The 25-year-old, from Norfolk Court, stole £27,000 worth of goods but was arrested at home the next day.

This week he was jailed for two years and eight months after admitting burglary, at Sheffield Crown Court.


His accomplice Anthony Hunt, 27, of Garbroads Crescent, was jailed for 18 months for the same offence.