David Ball, 32, was arrested shortly after his buttocks were caught on CCTV cameras at the store, Birmingham Crown Court heard.

The drunken thief, who escaped with cigarettes from the Co-op branch in Balsall Common, near Solihull, stole his girlfriend's Renault Clio from her driveway to smash through the store's security shutters.

He was then caught on camera dashing through a gap he had created in the grille wearing "nothing more than a bed sheet and a pair of his girlfriend's Ugg boots", John Edwards, prosecuting, told the court.

Once in the shop, Ball broke into a cigarette machine, stealing around £1,500 of cigarettes, on top of the £10,000 damage he caused ram-raiding the shop.

In video shown to the court, he could be seen squeezing back through the gap, exposing his bottom to the CCTV cameras as he returned to the car with his spoils.

He then led police on a high-speed car chase, reaching 80mph in a built-up 40mph zone and dodging a police "stinger" before crashing into two parked cars and spinning to a halt.

When arrested, Ball, of St Nicholas Avenue, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, said he "had been asleep in the back seat and knew nothing about the theft". He was found to be about two and a half times the legal alcohol limit.

Later, in a police interview, he said he had no recollection of his actions in the early hours of April 16 this year, but on seeing the CCTV footage "accepted that it was him".

Thomas Kenning, defending, said: "It was an unusual offence, to say the least."