Another bizarre incident related to a Premiership footballer demonstrated the role of CCTV. Mario Balotelli was asked to exit Manchester’s Trafford Centre after refusing to pull down the hood of his top.
CCTV pictures showed a 24-year-old man terrorising a pub holding a chainsaw after he was thrown out of the establishment for flouting the smoking ban. Dean Dinnen had been ejected from the bar in Hull shortly beforehand.
A “pack of lies”: that is how a judge described in court a man’s made-up story about a mugging that was proved wrong by CCTV cameras. Teesside man Alex Jones was helping his wife, who was a cash collector, but lost a bag of money.
A CCTV security tap was stolen during a run of robberies committed on businesses over the past month. Cash and the tap were taken from a takeaway restaurant as similar premises were targeted in the Midlands.
Detectives are urging people who recognise a pair of men on CCTV images of a store attack to identify them. Both of the men are white and in their early 20s. The first may be easier to identify as he wore a checked trapper hat.
A homeless man used fancy dress to commit a series of armed raids. Robber Martin Reilly admitted raiding bookmakers up and down the UK using unusual dress, including an Elvis Presley outfit.
CCTV images caught a gang of three thieves breaking into a bar. The trio who raided the Hampshire premises during the early morning are all described as white and in their early 20s.
CCTV images have been released of a man police want to trace after an attempted robbery at a turf accountants. The Cardiff premises were invaded by a man armed with a small kitchen knife who threatened staff.
CCTV footage has been recovered showing a man who has stolen jewellery worth almost half-a-million pounds. He placed all the items stolen from a Glasgow auction house in a black holdall.
An armed man was chased off premises by a shop owner wielding a broom handle. The unusual crime prevention tool was given to the owner by his employee who had also been threatened by the attempted robber.