A suspected burglar wearing only his pyjamas jumped from the window of a house in Devizes when police arrived to arrest him.

Officers from Calne went to the house on Friday morning after a vintage 1970s Suzuki Stinger motorbike was stolen from a property in Chiseldon, near Swindon, last month.

When they arrived the man in his teens leapt from a bedroom window in his pyjamas and fled barefoot. Five units chased him and he was eventually found hiding in a stairwell.

He was arrested on suspicion of assault and of breaking the terms of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order.

Police had been alerted to the suspect after motorbike parts were seized when five arrests were made in connection with a spate of burglaries in and around Calne last month.

The parts were later found to be from the bike that went missing in Swindon.

Sergeant Phil Connor, of Calne police, said: “It was clear from the outset that they were the stripped down parts of a Suzuki.

“Through local intelligence we heard the frame of the bike had been dumped in a nearby river.

“We went to the river and found the frame and from the serial number found it was the stolen motorbike.

“That led us to locate numerous witnesses and as a result we arrested a male on Friday morning on suspicion of the burglary in Swindon.

“During the arrest in Devizes he jumped out of a window and made off from police.

“We had the area surrounded and he was found in a stairwell with no shoes and no clothes on.”

The man is currently subject to a two-year ASBO, one of the conditions being he is not to have any involvement with any two-wheeled mechanically-propelled vehicle.

A 19-year-old man appeared at North Wiltshire Magistrates’ Court, on Saturday, charged with breaking the terms of his ASBO.

The burglary is still under investigation.