CCTV images released after Pontefract burglary that resulted in crash
Officers investigating the theft of two vehicles in a burglary in Pontefract have released CCTV images of a man they are looking to identify.
The CCTV is from nearby to where one of the stolen vehicles was recovered after it collided with a wall in Armthorpe, near Doncaster.
The burglary took place just after midnight on December 22 where a blue Mini Countryman and a silver Kia Picanto stolen.
Both vehicles were sighted shortly after this burglary, and a pursuit was authorised after the drivers failed to stop for police.
Officers are keen to identify the man in these CCTV images who is understood to have fled from one of the vehicles.
PC Victoria Simpson, of the Wakefield District Crime Team (DCT), said: “We have followed up on a number of lines of enquiry since this burglary which occurred at the end of last year.
"This has included house to house and CCTV enquiries both where the burglary occurred, but also in South Yorkshire where the vehicles were recovered from.
“We have worked with our counterparts at South Yorkshire Police in trying to identify the man in these images and are now asking for the public’s support in providing any information you may have that could help move this investigation forward.”
If anyone has any information that could assist, they are asked to contact Wakefield DCT via www.westyorkshire.police.uk/livechat or by calling 101, quoting crime reference 13250732008.
Information can also be passed to independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously via 0800 555 111 or on their website.