Police in Edinburgh have charged a 27-year-old man in connection with over forty break-ins to homes in the north east of the city.
The man was arrested and charged in November for five housebreakings then following extensive enquiries into a number of other incidents and recovered property by Edinburgh’s Community Investigation Unit (CIU) and the Search & Recovery Team, he was subsequently charged in connection with a further 41 incidents.
The break-ins took place in the Mountcastle, Craigentinny and Portobello areas between May and November 2018.
Around £11,000 worth of stolen property, including jewellery dating back to 1904 and passed down through generations, has since been recovered and reunited with it’s rightful owners.
The 27-year-old is currently remanded and awaiting trial for these offences.
Detective Inspector Bob Campbell of the CIU said: “Having your home broken into can be an extremely distressing experience and we remain committed to tackling break-ins.
“We will use all resources at our disposal to fully investigate every line of enquiry available to us, and bring perpetrators of these crimes before the courts. “
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
