A German bank despoiler led his pursuers straight to him after taunting police in some email over their efforts to catch him.

Authorities in the meridional city of Wuerzburg said the 19-year-old sent emails to police and sum of ~ units newspapers to point out factual errors in the report of his bank invasion in the town of Roettingen a week ago.

According to Daily Bild, he mocked the police since getting his age, height and accent wrong then pointed out that he had escaped in a car, not adhering foot.

“His game of cat and mouse went all wrong,” a Wuerzburg police prolocutor said.

Police traced his email and arrested him in a playing for money hall in Hamburg just a few hours later.

“He was completely shocked,” the spokesman said.

Reuters