Burglars smashed through a wall in a neighbouring café to break into a jewellers. The gang came up with the ruse to breach the highly secure store in Wilmslow town centre.
Despite the trouble, they went to in planning the raid it is believed they left empty handed when an alarm was triggered. The failed raid targeted Preston's, which is heavily branded as an official Rolex watches retailer.
The Manchester Evening News understands the gang first broke into the café, went up to the first floor and smashed a hole in a wall to get into the gems store. But were foiled when they were unable to penetrate doors on the other side of the wall in the jewellers. Their attempts to do so set off the store's alarm.
