Two separate crimes in the Midlands caught on CCTV

Supermarket security guard assault in Coalville – CCTV images released

CCTV images have been released by the police of two men they would like to speak to in connection to an assault on a supermarket security guard in Coalville.

The security guard works at the Morrisons supermarket on Whitwick Road, in Coalville and was assaulted on Sunday, November 6, not long after the store had closed at 4pm.

A Morrisons supermarket – the assault took place at a Morrisons supermarket in Coalville © Copyright Gordon McKinlay and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

Leicestershire Police said in a statement that the security guard was standing in the store’s lobby when two males walked into the store after it had closed. They were asked to leave the store and assaulted the security guard, who luckily wasn’t injured during the attack.

Anyone with information, or who might recognise the two men from the CCTV images, is asked to contact PC James Highton on 101.

CCTV images released after stolen bank card used at a jewellers in Coventry

CCTV images have been released by police of a man they would like to trace after a stolen bank card was used to try and purchase items at a jewellers in Coventry.

The bank card used by the man was stolen sometime between Tuesday, December 6 and Friday, December 16 from an elderly woman in Rugby.

The card was used on Friday, December 16 to purchase goods at a Currys store in Rugby at around 5.25pm and was then used again but declined the day after at the Mercia Jewellery shop in Bull Yard, in the city centre.

The stolen bank card has since been blocked and confiscated by a cash machine.

Anyone with information, or who might recognise the man in the CCTV image, is asked to call Warwickshire Police on 101, quoting incident 197 of December 17, or you can contact Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

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