Hammer probe
Date published: 17 November 2011
A MAN and a boy will appear at Oldham Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged in connection with a sledgehammer attack on a man in his Saddleworth home.
Dario Eastcroft (19) and a 17-year-old boy, both from Cheetham Hill, have been charged with aggravated burglary. On May 25, a 53-year-old man was attacked in his home in Grotton Meadows by three masked men with a sledgehammer. They caused injuries to his arm and face before fleeing.
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