A Streatham burglar has admitted trying to steal from a house on bonfire night.

Police caught Lawrence Marini with latex gloves, a crowbar and a screwdriver trying to burgle a house in Tolworth.

Kingston Crown Court heard Marini, 44, was a man of a man “of considerable offending history” .

Last Monday he admitted attempting to burgle a house in Tolworth Rise North and burgling another in Manor Drive, Worcester Park.

Marini faces a minimum sentence of three years when he returns to court on February 26.