TWO Aspendale residents who returned home after a few days away found a man unknown to them living in their house.
They found the stove alight, wet towels in the bathroom, phone plugged into a charger, various food packages opened and the kitchen cupboards empty when they returned home on Monday (17 April).
Upstairs in the Nepean Highway home, they found a man wearing white gloves hiding under boxes.
The man, 32, who gave police a New South Wales address, appeared to have entered through a broken bedroom window.
Police found a credit card in his pocket stolen from a Seaford woman’s car and used to buy $60 in drinks and phone credit.
The man was charged with obtaining property by deception and remanded to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (26 April).
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 26 April 2017
