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Blood stain led to store burglar.


A BLACK Country man who was part of a masked gang who got away with cigarettes and liquor after smashing their way into a supermarket has avoided a prison sentence.

Carl Hilton was arrested after police found a bloodstain blood·stain  
n.
A stain caused by blood.

tr.v. blood·stained, blood·stain·ing, blood·stains
To stain with blood.



[V., back-formation from bloodstained.
 at the scene and traced him through DNA testing.

Hilton, of Millington Road, Wolverhampton, admitted burgling the Co-op store in Albion Park, Wall Heath Wall Heath is a small village on the western fringe of the Black Country and the West Midlands conurbation (England, UK). It is located on the A449, approx. 7 miles south of Wolverhampton and 9 miles North of Kidderminster. , Dudley.

The gang got away with property valued at pounds 9,404.

Hugh O'Brien-Quinn, defending, told Wolverhampton Crown Court that Hilton played no part in planning the raid.

Recorder Edward Coke Sir Edward Coke (pronounced "cook") (1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634), was an early English colonial entrepreneur and jurist whose writings on the English common law were the definitive legal texts for some 300 years.  gave Hill a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years coupled with a two-year supervision order.
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Publication:Birmingham Mail (England)
Date:Oct 7, 2006
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