A brazen gang broke into an aristocrat's £3.5million country estate in broad daylight - just to take photos and sit on his furniture.
CCTV captured the trespassers - made up of four men and one woman - as they wandered around the 13-bedroom mansion and took snaps of the interior.
None bothered to wear a mask or tried to conceal their identity - with one even taking a moment to relax on a plush red velvet sofa in the large reception room.
Police said the break-in at the Grade II*-listed Maunsel House in Bridgwater, Somerset, happened between 2.30pm and 3.30pm on Sunday, August 24.
It came shortly after the 14th-century property, which is believed to be where Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, was listed for sale for the first time in centuries.
