CCTV image released (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

CCTV image released

3:42pm Friday 16th February 2007 in Swindon By Gazette Reporter

A CCTV image has been released of a man believed to be behind a spate of car crime.

In total two men are suspected of breaking into seven cars in 10 days in the Gorse Hill and Pinehurst area of Swindon.

Officers have warned that the pair are likely to keep targeting vehicles until they are caught and have urged people who have seen them in the area to come forward as a matter of urgency.

PC Angela Restorick, of Swindon police, said the image was taken at 11.22am on February 10 when two men on bicycles broke into a car on the Kembrey Park industrial estate and took a sat nav system and a radar detector.

"We think that they could be responsible for various other crimes involving vehicles," she said.

"We're looking for two males riding bikes, wearing hoodies and carrying rucksacks.

"We're looking for two males riding bikes, wearing hoodies and carrying rucksacks."

PC Angela Restorick

"Even if people don't recognise them but they have seen them around the industrial estate they could let us know."

The area beat manager, PC Steve Yeates, has called on members of the public to look out for the two cycling thieves.Police want to speak to the person pictured here "They are going to keep doing it until they are caught," he said.

The man who stole the items at Kembrey Park was white, aged between 17 and 21, of average height and medium build.

He was wearing a black beanie hat, black hooded top with a white stripe across the middle and under both armpits, black trousers and white trainers and a rucksack.

The lookout was also white, aged between 17 and 21, of average height and medium build, wearing a grey or silver puffer jacket.

Call PC Yeates, the new community beat manager for Gorse Hill, at Swindon police on 0845 408 7000, or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.