Man held for three village burglaries

10:30am Thursday 7th August 2008

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The combined efforts of two police forces, with information provided by the public resulted in the arrest of a man suspected of breaking into three Pewsey businesses.

Police were called to the Total Garage on Swan Corner in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a nearby resident reported hearing a crashing sound.

They found that the door into the forecourt shop had been smashed open.

Two officers decided to check other commercial premises in the village.

PC Emma Brown said: "The officers drove around to see if other premises had been burgled."

On the Salisbury Road Business Park they discovered two more businesses where forced entry had been made, Three Castles Brewery and Aquaid which provides water coolers.

Officers from Pewsey and Marlborough were involved in the investigation together with Wiltshire force's crime scenes investigators.

PC Brown said: "We were then alerted to a till being found smashed up at Lower Everleigh and we were able to get details of a vehicle that had been seen in the area."

At that point the Wiltshire officers did not realise their colleagues in Warwickshire had stopped a car that had been reported stolen in Nottingham.

It was quickly established that the man detained by police was responsible for the Pewsey burglaries.

"Soon after he was arrested we were able to link him with the crimes," said WPC Brown.

It transpired that a large quantity of cigarettes had been taken from the Total Garage and the till recovered by officers had come from the Three Castles Brewery.

Anthony Mulcock, the Three Castles brewer, said: "They broke the door, smashed open some cabinets but all they took was the till.

"They took the till because it was locked but there was no money in it."

The man arrested by police came from Nottinghamshire and was charged with the three Pewsey burglaries and with other offences including taking the car.