Two people who were arrested following an armed police siege are to be sentenced next month for affray after being acquitted of robbery at trial.
Callum Kerr, 32, of Partington Square, Runcorn, and Rachel Bates, 38, of The Uplands, Runcorn, were released on conditional bail on Friday to appear at Chester Crown Court on March 17. Jurors sitting last week found the pair not guilty of robbery over an incident alleged to have taken place in Widnes at about 10.45am on the day of the siege on Thursday, August 18, last year.
Kerr and Bate were arrested late on August 18 after refusing to emerge from a bungalow on The Uplands in Palacefields, Runcorn. Residents watched the stand-off from beyond the safety cordons as police in tactical gear trained guns at the single-storey dwelling and negotiators tried to coax them out.
