A SHAMEFUL drunk has passed out with about $7000 of stolen grog in a wheelie bin at his feet just metres from the scene of the crime.

Warren Andrew Argall appeared a bit worse for wear when he admitted robbing Char Restaurant.

“I’m ashamed of myself,” he told Darwin Magistrates Court yesterday, NT News reported.

Argall and his co-accused Dion Crowle – whose backpack and ID were left behind – stole 151 bottles of assorted spirits and 216 stubbies of beer from the restaurant’s locked cool room, the court heard.

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The grog was valued at a total of $7507.

Prosecutor Anthony Albore said the pair entered Char, on the Esplanade, through an unlocked back gate on Monday night. They ripped off the cool room door and drank beer, the court heard.

Argall fetched a wheelie bin and loaded it with alcohol.

The two men left the restaurant, returning at intervals during the night with “unknown men” to steal more boxes and six packs of beer, the court heard. The crimes were caught on security camera.

Police found Argall unconscious on the path outside Char with the wheelie bin full of spirits and a carton each of Corona and Boags.

Mr Albore said the accused conceded he was one of the men on the CCTV footage but remembered nothing about the previous night.

He was sentenced to a total of one month and three days in prison.

Crowle was remanded to face court in January.