This is the bizarre moment a British pensioner was arrested after stealing his next door neighbour's mattress. <br /><br />Sydney Edward, 72, and wife Phensako Nasok, 45, broke into the room in Pattaya, Thailand, while the owner – who had also been their friend –was on holiday. <br /><br />The victim, identified only as Stephen, 66, returned home from a trip to Cambodia and was stunned to find his bed had been nabbed - along with 126,000 Baht (3,000GBP) that he had hidden.<br /><br />Staff at the apartment block checked CCTV and immediately identified Sydney and his Thai wife, who were arrested and taken on a crime re-enactment yesterday (Wednesday) morning. <br /><br />The couple told police they were desperate for money and stole the mattress because they had been sleeping on the floor. <br /><br />Sydney said: ''We needed the mattress because we have nothing to sleep on. I haven't spent any of the money and we can return it. I'm sorry that we did this.''<br /><br />Phensako told police the couple had been friends with the neighbour and she ''didn't think he would mind''. She added: ''We do not want to have a problem with him. We don't have any money and we knew he has a lot.''<br /><br />The couple initially denied the theft but confessed when they were shown CCTV of them breaking the door open then dragging out the double mattress. <br /><br />Lieutenant Colonel Apichai Krobtech, head of the police force in the popular tourist city, said the couple acted as a team while committing the burglary.<br /><br />He said: ''The wife was checking down the corridor while the man broke the door open then stole the mattress and cash from the victim.''
