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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Ellen Kirwin

Suspects named after more than 30 'high value burglaries'

Merseyside police have charged three men in connection to a string of high value burglaries.

Officers from Operation Castle were investigating a series of burglaries across the North West in the early part of 2021. Ten were committed in Merseyside, 17 in Lancashire, seven in Cheshire and one in both North Wales and Norfolk.

Detectives have reported the Lancashire burglaries also involved guns. Three men have now been charged for the offences.

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Adam Hastings, 30, originally from Netherton, Shaun Rimmer, 28, originally from Netherton and Callum Martin, 32, originally from Bootle, but all of no fixed abode, were charged with conspiracy to burgle dwelling houses between January 2021 and April 2021.

They were also charged with unlawful possession of shotguns in relation to a Lancashire burglary. Hastings and Rimmer were also charged with theft of a motor vehicle in relation to one of the burglaries in Cheshire.

The accused will appear at Liverpool magistrates court on Tuesday, June 7.

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