A person has been arrested following the theft of 100 iPads from a youngsters’s hospital.
The iPads, value £70,000, had been stolen from Alder Hey Kids’s Hospital in West Derby, Liverpool from an out of doors container.
Officers had been referred to as to the scene at 9pm on Friday November 19.
Police carried out intensive CCTV and witness inquiries which revealed {that a} man bought 40 iPads to a sell-and-exchange retailer in Liverpool final month.
A 54-year-old man from Halewood was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of housebreaking and was taken to a Merseyside police station for questioning by detectives, the place he stays in custody.
Detective Inspector Steven O’Neill mentioned: “These iPads had been purchased as presents to offer to sick youngsters and their households at Alder Hey Kids’s Hospital.
“Because of the exhausting work of our officers we’ve made an arrest within the run-up to Christmas that may hopefully make them really feel protected and safe.
“I hope this arrest reveals how severely Merseyside Police takes such offences particularly at a spot that’s on the coronary heart of our neighborhood and treats so many youngsters and infants with such complicated and specialist circumstances.
“You probably have any data concerning theft or housebreaking please contact or converse to our officers.”
Kaynak: briturkish.com
