E-fit artist starts hunt for burglar from outer space.
Morphed from the Times.
A burglary appears to have been committed by a Martian with a partialy-severed ear, five o'clock shadow and
a stick-on moustache from a christmas cracker. Have you seen him ?
Kim Rule, joint licensee of the Grebe pub in Stalham, Norfolk, has asked police to try harder with their computerised
image of the man she saw stealing two small safes from her premises. The e-fit picture was created from
a description of the intruder given to officers by Mrs Rule. She did not get a good look at his face, but she believes
that he was human. She fears that he will never be caught on the basis of such an inaccurate image.
Police have issued a picture of a man with the top of his right ear missing, tousled hair, dark heavy eyebrows
and a moustache offset and partly covering his top lip.
''He did'nt look that odd'' said his victim.'' ''We have some right charecters 'ere but I have never
seen anyone like that in Stalham or anywhere else in my life.
Apparently the problem with the moustache was that the police only had long moustaches on their computor
and had to sort of chop it off and fiddle around a bit.
Privately Norfolk police are highly amused at the image. And they acknowledge that if the felon really looks like that,
catching him will be a piece of cake , unless he's hot-footed it back to Mars.
