An intruder who walked into a stranger’s home to take a shower astonished police when they came to arrest him and he asked for “five more minutes.”

A resident of the Schilderswijk neighbourhood of the Dutch city of The Hague had left their front door open as they were expecting guests.

And when they heard someone in the bathroom, they reportedly assumed that it must have been a guest.

But they quickly realised that it was not and called the police.

The police arrived on the scene and told the man to get out of the shower.

The cops said that the man replied: “Five more minutes, five minutes!”

The man, who has not been named but who is said to be a homeless person from Poland, was eventually arrested. He was detained for trespassing.

The homeowner, who has not been named either, was said to be shocked over the incident.

The police said: “Always call the police in such cases.”