Unexpected Xmas guest in Pennsylvania

A Pennsylvania family did not realise they had an unexpected Christmas guest until a man who had been in their attic for days emerged wearing their clothes.

Stanley Carter surrendered after police took a dog to search the home in Wilkes-Barre about 160km north of Philadelphia. He was charged with several counts of burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal trespass.

Police said the 21-year-old Carter had been staying with his friends, who are Ferrance's neighbours. But when they told him to leave, he apparently accessed a shared attic through a trapdoor in a bedroom ceiling.