A thief's £22,000 crime spree was uncovered after he failed to get away unnoticed from an escape room attraction he had broken into.

Marc Jenkins was jailed for three years and four months after carrying out a string of break-ins over the course of a week in March.

He was caught in the act stealing from the Da Vinci room at the Escape Dundee attraction in the city's Commercial Street.

Enthusiasts pay £19 to enter the room where they then have an hour to work as a team and solve puzzles to escape.

But Jenkins didn't hand over any cash, instead forcing his way in and raiding the Leonardo Da Vinci themed room.

He was filmed by hairdressers in an adjacent property loading his ill-gotten gains into a vehicle.

Shortly after, manager Sean Delaney caught him in the act and tried to make sure he didn't escape.

Jenkins did eventually get away but not before being filmed making off and being identified by a string of witnesses.

That led to police uncovering a trail of thefts across Dundee that had seen him net £21,926 in property in the space of less than a week.

Fiscal depute Charmaine Gilmartin told Dundee Sheriff Court that in one of the thefts Jenkins had stolen jewellery that he had then given to his girlfriend as a gift.

In another of his crimes he smashed his way into a house as a mother and her child were sleeping upstairs, leaving them terrified, while the third was when he broke in to a friend's flat.

Describing the Escape Dundee incident, Ms Gilmartin added: "The manager passed the secret Da Vinci room and heard the sounds of somebody breathing deeply and made his way closer to the door.

"He opened the door and observed Jenkins standing staring back at him.

"The manager approached and Jenkins made for the main door, the manager then giving pursuit.

"He managed to evade the manager's grip and made off in a car.

"Footage captured by the hairdressers was viewed and the manager confirmed the male identified in the footage was the male he had found in the locus.

"A police officer identified the accused from the footage."

Jenkins, 31, a prisoner at HMP Perth, pleaded guilty on indictment to four charges of theft by housebreaking committed between March 9 and March 15 this year on Cunningham Street, Barns Neuk, Mayfield Grove and Commercial Street, Dundee.

Sheriff Alastair Brown jailed Jenkins for three years and four months.

He said: "You took jewellery and gave it to your girlfriend as a gift.

"What she thinks about being given stolen property I don't know but I don't imagine the lady whose jewellery was taken is likely to be happy.

"When you break in to someone's home you create feelings of violation and insecurity and that's serious."