Sleeper's reprieve
A prison officer who forced his way into a woman's house while sleepwalking was put on probation at Newcastle upon Tyne Crown Court. Robert Burnett, 28, of Sunderland, was found not guilty of intent to rape because he was suffering from insane automatism.
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