Two people have been charged after police followed a trail of water left from a boiler stolen from a house in Leigh.
Desmond Alker (born 22/09/1972) of Firs Lane, Leigh, and Stephen Edward Darbyshire (born 14/02/1981), of no fixed abode, are charged with burglary and theft and were due before Wigan and Leigh Magistrates' Court on 30 November 2010.
Police were called to a house on Firs Lane at 1.50am on Monday 29 November 2010, following reports of a break-in.
Officers attended a few minutes later and discovered a boiler had been removed from the kitchen.
The officers followed a trail of frozen water to a nearby address where they recovered the boiler.
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