Man arrested following theft of iPads from children’s hospital

An individual has been arrested following the theft of 100 iPads from a children’s hospital.

The iPads, worth £70,000, have been stolen from Alder Hey Youngsters’s Hospital in West Derby, Liverpool from an out of doorways container.

Officers have been referred to as to the scene at 9pm on Friday November 19.

Police carried out in depth CCTV and witness inquiries which revealed {that a} man provided 40 iPads to a sell-and-exchange retailer in Liverpool last month.

A 54-year-old man from Halewood was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of burglary and was taken to a Merseyside police station for questioning by detectives, the place he stays in custody.

Detective Inspector Steven O’Neill talked about: “These iPads have been bought as presents to current to sick children and their households at Alder Hey Youngsters’s Hospital.

“Because of the arduous work of our officers now now we have made an arrest inside the run-up to Christmas which will hopefully make them actually really feel protected and protected.

“I hope this arrest reveals how considerably Merseyside Police takes such offences significantly at a spot that’s on the coronary coronary heart of our neighborhood and treats so many children and infants with such difficult and specialist circumstances.

“If in case you have any data concerning theft or housebreaking please contact or converse to our officers.”