UPDATE WEDNESDAY 6.30PM: Police have released CCTV footage as they attempt to trace a burglar who broke into an elderly couple’s home in Holbeach.
The footage taken from a resident’s CCTV camera shows a man acting suspiciously in Netherfield about an hour before the burglary took place.
Anyone with information should call DC Debra Charlesworth on 101, quoting incident number 26 of June 11.
TUESDAY 2.30PM: An elderly Holbeach couple were shocked to find an intruder in their bedroom after they were woken from their sleep.
The intruder got into the couple’s home in Netherfield after breaking in through a conservatory window before going into the bedroom and shining a torch.
But once the couple were awake, the intruder fled empty-handed.
Police said the incident happened at about 3.15am on Tuesday and a neighbour’s CCTV system showed two men acting suspiciously in the area an hour earlier.
Anyone with information should call DC Debra Charlesworth on 101, quoting incident number 26 of June 11.