A drunk burglar was caught in a mother's bathroom, got punched by her partner and then tried kissing a police officer.

Lukasz Napierkowski put his arm around the PC’s waist and leaned in for a kiss while she was preparing him for the cells.

But she powerfully pushed the 29-year-old away shouting: “You tried to kiss me, you do not touch me inappropriately.”

When Napierkowski denied the accusation, she pointed out the offence was caught on CCTV.

Moments before, mother-of-three Daisy Fordham discovered Napierkowski in her Folkestone bathroom at 3.30am, bizarrely clutching her cleaning products.

She ordered the Polish national out of her Ryland Place home - where her children were asleep - and phoned her partner before alerting police.

Her partner, who was named as Mr Dobson in court, swiftly located Napierkowski close by - and then punched him.

“Mr Dobson thought he (Napierkowski) was going to assault him so punched him and restrained him until the police arrived,” prosecutor Amy Nicholson told Canterbury Crown Court.

“It turned out he had stolen some cleanser,” she added.

The former warehouseman was also found to be holding “worthless stolen documents” linked to a separate crime reported the day before.

Miss Nicholson told how Napierkowski’s obscure behaviour intensified at the police station on the morning of July 31.

“When he was being booked-in he tried to place his arms around her waist, and moved towards her and tried to kiss her.

“She pushed him away while fearing for her safety.”

Napierkowski’s barrister James Howard said his client accepts the Crown Prosecution Service’s case, but was drunk and depressed at the time.

“Three months before the incident he lost employment and suffered relationship difficulties.

“He suffered depression and walked out on his job.

“On this day he drunk alcohol through the day and he was smoking cannabis toward the latter part of the night.

“In effect, he was drowning his sorrows,” the barrister said.

Judge Rupert Lowe jailed the Polish national, of no fixed address, for 13 months and warned he may be deported on release.

Napierkowski’s latest offence activated a 90-day suspended sentence for carrying a bladed article in public and three lesser charges.

He pleaded guilty today to sexual touching, burglary, and handling stolen goods.

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