Jury finds former cleaner not guilty of jewellery theft from homes
A woman has been found not guilty of all charges relating to the theft of more than £30,000 of jewellery and ornaments.
A jury at Shrewsbury Crown Court cleared Angela Evans of all three counts of theft she faced.
Mrs Evans, 55 and from Bitterley, had been on trial accused of stealing from two families for whom she had worked as a cleaner.
Mrs Evans had given evidence during the trial explaining that she had neither stolen nor sold items from the late William Sykes, who lived near Bishop’s Castle, or his daughter Angela Loder’s family, who also live near Bishop's Castle.
The trial centred on a number of items taken from the properties, including a pair of silver candlesticks, a brooch worth £25,000, a diamond ring worth £3,000, a claret jug, a diamond pendant necklace and a silver fox.
