POLICE responding to a report of an intruder found their man asleep in his car - wearing only a pink G-string.

Minutes earlier, a bemused couple sitting in their home had been confronted by the near-naked drunk.

They had left the door of their home in the Avenue, Starbeck, Harrogate, unlocked, as they were expecting their daughter home at about 9pm.

But instead it was total stranger David Lapsley who walked in - "wearing no top and no shoes".

He appeared drunk, mumbled something to the couple and then left.

The surprised householders watched him climb into a Ford Fiesta and then called the police.

Officers found Lapsley, a 42-year-old from Lochmor, Ferrensby, near Knaresborough, asleep in the driver's seat wearing only the G-string.

Yesterday, he admitted being in charge of a car while three-and-a-half times the limit and magistrates in Harrogate banned him for a year.

They also made a 12-month community order, with six months probation supervision and alcohol treatment sessions, and ordered him to pay £45 costs.

David Tucker, prosecuting, said Lapsley could provide no explanation for his state of undress, how he had got to the Avenue, or why he had been there.

Solicitor Geoffrey Rogers, mitigating, said Lapsley, a separated father-offour, was deeply embarrassed, had no recollection at all of the events and could not explain his actions.

He had drunk strong lager while home alone and the next thing he remembered was waking in a police cell, and asking: "What am I doing here."

Mr Rogers said: "He can't explain why he wandered into this house or why he decided to strip off in public and ended up wearing a pink G-string.

"It is not the sort of thing he goes around doing. All he can put the aberration down to is drink.

"As for the G-string, it is not his and he can't explain where it came from."