Police appeal and issue warning over Gumtree scam

Officers have released CCTV footage and images of a man they are trying to trace following three burglaries in Birmingham and one in Walsall.The most recent occurred last Tuesday in Stechford. At 4pm the man – pictured − entered a house on Broadstone Road after arranging to buy a mobile phone advertised for sale on Gumtree.Once inside he managed to swap the handset for an identical dummy phone, and then left without paying.There have been three identical offences:6 June – Lyncr